Sylvestre MAURICE is an astrophysicist, planetary scientist at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP). He has worked on numerous space missions to study Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon. With colleagues, he helped discover ice at the poles of the Moon (1998) and Mercury (2011), as well as on the surface of Mars (2004). For the NASA’s Curiosity rover, he designed ChemCam, the first French instrument on Mars, which helped demonstrate the red planet’s past habitability (2013). Later, he designed the SuperCam instrument, which is at the head of the NASA’s Perseverance rover. This instrument carries a microphone that has enabled scientists to discover the acoustic landscape of Mars (2022). He has co-authored over 240 scientific papers and is a member of several academies, including the French Academy of Technology.