Christopher Edwards, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, received a six-year, $650,000 grant for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission awarded by NASA. This goal is to send an uncrewed spacecraft to Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos, to gather information about them. It also will collect surface material from Phobos, a first-of-its-kind attempt.
Read the full story at The NAU Review.
Anna Baker has been on a path toward a career in research since she presented her first research poster at the national Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in the ninth grade.
Read the full story by Heidi Toth at The NAU Review.
Mary Lara has taught and served the Flagstaff Community for over 40 years. Starting as a professional educator in Kindergarten, Mary has taught all levels of elementary education with an unbound passion in getting children to reach their full potential while encouraging discovery and a love of learning. During… Read more
A new study released today found that NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) knocked the asteroid Dimorphos off its orbit, changing it by 33 minutes.
This announcement, along with three others based on research from the groundbreaking Sept. 26 mission, is published in Nature. Cristina Thomas, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Northern Arizona University and lead of the DART Observations Working Group, is the study’s lead author.
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Melissa Sevigny’s KNAU story about our astroinformatics boot camp run by David Trilling, affiliate faculty Mike Gowanlock, and MS student Daniel Kramer.
From the James Webb Space Telescope Blog: Breaking the Tracking Speed Limit With Webb