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**Dr. Christopher Mckay**
Dr. Chris Mckay is a planetary scientist who studies planetary atmospheres and astrobiology (which is basically biology about aliens). Dr. Chris Mckay also conducted research on extremophiles living in conditions where most people think that nothing could live, especially in a gas called methane when it is made liquid. He did research on the atmospheres of the Red Planet Mars, and the 'habitable' thick atmosphere-ed mini-planet (in reality, a moon) Titan.

He is biocentric on the ethics of terraformation because he wants terraformation to help the life-forms on the planet, not destroying it.

Even though he supported the fact that the moon Titan might possibly has life, but he also thinks it might be simply be human error, or by some unknown substance in the soil that is reacting with the methane in the air.

He has performed field research on extremophiles in the Death Valley, Atacama Desert, the Alex Heiberg Island, and the ice-covered lakes of Antarctica.



He recieved his PhD in astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982, and his bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University. He works at NASA Ames Research Center. He is also a co-investigator on the Huygens probe, the Mars Phoenix Lander and the other unmanned probes that were sent into space.

Why is Christopher P. Mckay considered a Groundbreaker?

Dr. Chris Mckay is considered a groundbreaker and he fits the definition because he researched on the origin of life and planetary atmospheres, and he is one of the few scientists that did research on the new field, astrobiology. The research that he conducted on extremophiles showed us that life is very resilient and will never cease to fascinate us in every way. There were creatures from underneath the sea that were once called tall tales, but now the fiction of a few hundred years ago became fact, and what was a difficult question a few years ago, now it is answered, life is resilient.

Christopher Mckay is a scientist who conducted research on extremophiles in really EXTEME locations, like in places that is either too cold or too hot, little or no air, or air with too much 'foreign' gases.
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Dr. Mckay's acheivements are: he and his team found microbes living in liquid methane and other harsh conditions where multi-cellular organisms have completely no hope of living in, and that his research on planetary atmospheres changed the scientists' views on where is habitable and where is not.
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Dr. Mckay is considered to be a groundbreaker and he fits the definition because he conducted successful research on extremophiles and extraterrestrial atmospheres which led him to say '...life stinks, all life forms gives off certain gases, and all we need to do is to detect these gases in the atmosphere to be certain.'
 * Why he/she is considered to be a groundbreaker and whether or not they fit the definition.**

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