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
On February 6 — International Day of Women and Girls in Science — The NAU Review published an article about NAU women in science; featuring from our department Lisa Chien, Paloma Davidson, Cristina Thomas, and Jasmine Garani. Congratulations to all of them!
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Planetary scientists from Northern Arizona University are conducting tests on soil-moisture retention on volcanic dunes located near Sunset Crater, just 20 miles north of Flagstaff. The team hopes that the data they collect will help them understand how water is stored on Mars. NAU-TV captured the important work.