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Dr. Alfred S. McEwen
Professor
Planetary Geology
Ph.D., 1988, Arizona State University
Contact:
- Lunar and Planetary Lab
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- Office: Space Sciences 429
- Phone: (520) 621-4573
- Email: mcewen
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Dr. McEwen is a planetary geologist and director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory
(PIRL)
. He is a member of the imaging science team of the Cassini mission to Saturn; co-investigator on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit Camera
(LROC)
team; participating scientist on Mars Odyssey THEMIS; and PI of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
(HiRISE)
for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
( MRO )
. For Cassini he is leading the planning and analysis for imaging observations of Titan's surface. For Mars he is focusing on studies of recent flood lavas and fluvial features, terrestrial analogs, evaluation of potential future landing sites, and studies of small craters. HiRISE is Alfred's major project for the next decade. MRO launched in August 2005, and will arrive at Mars in March 2006, and begin the science phase in December 2006, continuing until 2009 or later.
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