Ahmed AlHantoobi, an intern working with NAU planetary scientists, assistant professor Christopher Edwards and postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Buz in NAU’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, led a study looking for answers to explain these magnetic anomalies. The team explored the relationships between the strength of the magnetic field on the surface and the composition of the crust in the Terra Sirenum-Terra Cimmeria region of Mars.
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The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) recently named Tyler Robinson, assistant professor in NAU’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, a 2021 Cottrell Scholar. This award includes a three-year, $100,000 grant to advance his teaching and research.
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Chad Trujillo’s recent discovery of the most distant object in the Solar System continues to get attention.
Here is an article from the Gemini Observatory Newsletter: Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout
and from the NOIRLab Newsletter: Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout
and KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny interviews Dr. Trujillo: NAU Astronomer Describes Discovery Of Distant Space… Read more
A team of astronomers, including associate professor Chad Trujillo of Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto, making it the most distant object observed in our solar system. The planetoid, which has been nicknamed “Farfarout,” was first detected in 2018, and the team has now collected enough observations to pin down its orbit. The Minor Planet Center has now given… Read more
The United Arab Emirates today became the fifth space agency ever to place a spacecraft in orbit around Mars.
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ASU’s Philip Christensen developed the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS) with former student Christopher Edwards, who is now an assistant professor at NAU.
The orbiter, named Hope (Al Amal in Arabic), carries three science instruments including the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS), an interferometric thermal infrared spectrometer developed by Philip Christensen of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration with Christopher Edwards of NAU’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, in a partnership with the MBRSC.
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