Please join us in congratulating Kana Ishimaru, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Probing the Alteration Histories of Primitive Carbonaceous Materials from the Asteroid to the Atomic Scale.
📸: Kana is pictured with her Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Jessica Barnes.
Congrats to all! LPL is proud of our alums! More information about the DPS prize winners can be found here: dps.aas.org/news/aas-div...
Congratulations, 2026 Galileo Scholars!
Kudos to Kayla!
Congratulations, Lucas! 🥳
Kudos to LPL graduate student Cole Meyer! 🎉
Please join us in congratulating Kiana McFadden, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Thermal Modeling of Main Belt and Mars-Crossing Asteroids: Improved Constraints on Physical Properties from Extended WISE/NEOWISE Observations.
Congratulations, Kiana!
A research team at LPL demonstrated that ground-penetrating radar mounted on drones can map the thickness of rocky debris covering glaciers on Earth. These results could help future astronauts locate accessible water locked in buried ice on Mars.
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Space Drafts #117 is on May 20 @ 7:30PM at Zerai's International Bar! On tap this month we have @jenivevep.bsky.social telling us about the hunt for infant black holes and @zarahwithaz.bsky.social telling us about Saturn's Rings! If you can't make it in person we are online at bit.ly/SpaceDrafts117.
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Kudos to LPL alums Michelle Thompson and James Keane who received their PECASE awards yesterday! More info about this honor is here: www.nasa.gov/organization...
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Space Drafts (Astronomy on Tap Tucson)
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
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U of A researchers launched drones equipped with ground-penetrating radar over debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming that resemble buried ice deposits found on Mars.
