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Christina "Chrissy" Richey is an American planetary scientist and astrophysicist working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California.Richey is a project staff scientist for the Europa Clipper mission and is a research technologist in the Astrophysics and Space Sciences Section. [2]
Makenzie Lystrup (born c. 1977) is an American planetary scientist and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of SPIE, best known as a prominent voice [1] [2] in civil space projects [3] and science policy. [4] Lystrup is the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. [5]
She traveled to Iran's Lut Desert to study wind-carved ridges, termed yardangs, which are found on Mars, Venus and Titan and has spent four seasons (05-06, 08–09, 13–14, 16–17) in Antarctica with the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites, where she helped recover meteorite samples from around the Solar System including the Moon and Mars.
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Buratti also does educational outreach at the college and grade school level. [5] In 2014 she was elected Chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. [ 6 ] In November 2015, Buratti was named the NASA Project Scientist for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko .
Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation.
Patrick Michel, Côte d'Azur Observatory, 2020. Patrick Michel (born 25 February 1970 in Saint-Tropez, France) is a French planetary scientist, Senior Researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), member of the team TOP (Theories and Observations in Planetology) of the CNRS and Université Côte d'Azur Lagrange Laboratory at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice (France ...
LPI – (organization) Lunar and Planetary Institute; LPL – (organization) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, the planetary science department of the University of Arizona; LPV – (celestial object) Long Period Variable, a type of variable star that changes in brightness slowly over time