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Students build VISIONS spaceflight hardware

Posted by Heather Tate on October 24, 2022

Planetary scientist Christopher Edwards leads project giving students hands-on experience while giving NAU a competitive advantage.

Students in clean labThe students are on a multidisciplinary team led by associate professor Christopher Edwards, co-led by professor David Trilling, postdoctoral scholar Chris Haberle, and associate professor Michael Shafer.

Students working to meet NASA’s rigorous requirements

The project began earlier in 2022 when Robert Lillis of the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, the… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Pathways to the skies: NAU and CCC launch partnership to increase URM participation in astronomy, planetary science and other STEM fields

Posted by Heather Tate on June 6, 2022

Christopher Edwards and student in MARS Rover lab

National Science Foundation grant will support internships for 20 undergraduates

Professor David Trilling, chair of Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to launch a new partnership with Coconino Community College (CCC). The initiative will create a pathway… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Science Teaching and Learning, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Forestry, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, STEM

Searching for ‘ground truth’: Planetary geologist to lead next phase of Mars Science Lab Curiosity Rover project

Posted by Heather Tate on March 21, 2022

Scientists will compare thermophysical properties from rover to orbital data and analog measurements gathered on Earth to understand rock record

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover explores the Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover explores the Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Launched in 2011, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science

Planetary scientists discover evidence of brief presence of water in Arabia Terra on Mars

Posted by Heather Tate on November 8, 2021

Christopher Edwards and Ari Koeppel working on a drone in the field In support of their Mars research, Koeppel (on the left) and Edwards (right) conducted an analog study in a cinder field near Flagstaff, Arizona. At the Flagstaff study site, they were able to collect data in the field and compare it with the… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science

NASA recognizes NAU planetary scientist with prestigious Early Career Award

Posted by Heather Tate on May 25, 2021

Funding will support new field-portable lab, help train next-generation analog scientists to ensure NAU becomes a leader in planetary analog science

Alicia Rutledge at a glacierNASA has selected Northern Arizona University assistant research professor Alicia Rutledge as one of only five early-career scientists in the country to receive funding through its… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science

NAU planetary science intern leads study of Martian crust

Posted by Heather Tate on March 2, 2021

Group photo of Ahmed AlHantoobi, NAU postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Buz and NAU assistant professor Christopher Edwards
From left: NAU summer intern Ahmed AlHantoobi, NAU postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Buz and NAU assistant professor Christopher Edwards studied magnetic anomalies in the Martian crust.

The planet Mars has no global magnetic field, although scientists believe it did have one at some point in the past. Previous studies suggest that when Mars’… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science

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