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The Moon (in Greek: σελήνη Selene, in Latin: Luna) is Earth's only natural satellite.[e][9] It is one of the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, and, among planetary satellites, the largest relative to the size of the planet it orbits (its primary).[f][g] It is the second-densest satellite among those whose densities are known (after Jupiter's satellite Io).

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Name Missions & Mission Experience Targets Techniques Major Facilities & Instrument Development
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Oleg Abramov 		Europa Clipper ** Calibration/Test planning, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Science operations Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Mars, Moon Astrobiology, Impacts, Remote sensing, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
aharonson's picture
Oded Aharonson 		Cassini, LRO, Mars Global Surveyor, MER, MRO Icy satellites, Mars, Moon Geology
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Chance Amos 		MRO Earth, Icy satellites, Mars, Moon Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Planetary Interiors, Radar, Remote sensing, Tectonics
andre's picture
Sarah Andre 		MESSENGER Mercury, Moon, Small satellites Remote sensing, Tectonics, Geology
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Natalia Artemieva 		Earth, Moon, Titan High-Throughput Computing (HTC), Numerical modeling
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Amy Barr Mlinar 		Cassini, Europa Clipper, Galileo, New Horizons Callisto, Charon, Dwarf planets, Europa, Exoplanets, Ganymede, Gas giants, Icy satellites, Kuiper Belt, Mercury, Moon, Pluto, Saturn Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Impacts, Numerical modeling, Planetary Interiors, Tectonics, Volcanism
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Bruce Barraclough 		ACE, Cassini, Dawn, GENESIS, Lunar Prospector, Ulysses ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Deputy Instrument PI, Instrument operations, Instrument PI Mars, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors, Plasma spectrometers
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Gretchen Benedix 		Asteroids, Mars, Meteorites, Moon Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Electron Microscopy, Geochemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Spectroscopy FTIR
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Dan Berman 		Dawn, MRO, MSL Ceres, Mars, Moon, Vesta Crater Counting, Geomorphology, Mapping, Virtual Reality (VR), Volcanism
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Sanlyn Buxner 		LRO, Lucy, Mars Odyssey, Phoenix Mars Lander Earth, Meteorites, Moon Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work
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Frank Chuang 		Galileo, LRO, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, MESSENGER, MRO ** Mission science team Callisto, Earth, Europa, Ganymede, Icy satellites, Io, Mars, Mercury, Moon Crater Counting, Geology, Geomorphology, Impacts, Mapping, Remote sensing, Volcanism Cameras
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Roger Clark 		Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Europa Clipper, Galileo, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Observer, MRO ** Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission Co-Investigator Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Earth, Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Io, Jupiter, Kuiper Belt, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Neptune, Planetary rings, Pluto, Saturn, Small satellites, Titan, Uranus, Venus, Vesta Geology, Ground-based observing, Mapping, Mineralogy, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy
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Jean-Philippe Combe 		Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Dawn, Mars Express (ESA), Rosetta ** Calibration/Test planning, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Icy satellites, Mars, Moon, Phobos, Planetary rings, Titan, Vesta Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mapping, Mineralogy, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy Cameras, FTIR, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers, Thermal radiometers
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Samuel Courville 		Asteroids, Mars, Moon Field Work, Gravity, Numerical modeling, Radar
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David Crown 		Dawn, Mars Odyssey, MRO Ceres, Dwarf planets, Earth, Icy satellites, Io, Mars, Moon, Venus Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Radar, Remote sensing, Tectonics, Volcanism
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Don Davis 		Apollo Asteroids, Moon, Vesta Celestial Mechanics, Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling
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Deborah Domingue Lorin 		MER, MESSENGER Asteroids, Icy satellites, Mercury, Moon Photometry, Spectroscopy Cameras, Spectrometers
mdyar's picture
Darby Dyar 		MSL Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy
feldman's picture
William Feldman 		ACE, Dawn, Giotto (ESA), Lunar Prospector, Mariner 10, Mars Observer, Mars Odyssey, MESSENGER, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Ulysses ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Instrument operations, Instrument PI, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down Ceres, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind, Vesta Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Neutron detectors, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy
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Jianqing Feng 		Chang'E 1 (China), Chang'E 2 (China), Chang'E 3 (China), Juno, LRO ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team Ganymede, Moon Numerical modeling, Radar, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Thermal modeling Microwave radiometers, Thermal radiometers
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Fritz Foss 		Kaguya (Japan), Mars Express (ESA), MRO ** Mission science team Earth, Mars, Moon Numerical modeling, Radar, Remote sensing
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Robert Gaskell 		Cassini, Dawn, MESSENGER, OSIRIS-REx, Rosetta, Voyager Asteroids, Comets, Earth, Icy satellites, Io, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Small satellites, Vesta Shape modeling
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Rebecca Ghent 		LRO, Mars 2020, OSIRIS-REx Asteroids, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus Remote sensing, Radar, Tectonics, Volcanism, Numerical modeling, Geology, Ground-based observing, Mapping
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Amara Graps 		Cassini, Dawn, Galileo, IRAS, New Horizons, Rosetta, Ulysses, Voyager ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Enceladus, Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Io, Io torus, Jupiter, Meteorites, Moon, Planetary rings, Saturn, Small satellites, Solar particles/Solar wind, Uranus, Vesta Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Magnetospherics, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Remote sensing, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Volcanism IRTF, Palomar ** Cameras, Dust counter
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JA Grier 		Asteroids, Ceres, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Small satellites, Vesta Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy
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Bill Hartmann 		Mariner 9, Mars Express (ESA), Mars Global Surveyor Asteroids, Comets, Earth, Mars, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Volcanism
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Douglas Hemingway 		Cassini Enceladus, Europa, Icy satellites, Moon, Titan Gravity, Planetary Interiors
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Amanda Hendrix 		Cassini, Galileo, HST, IUE, LRO, Mariner 10, Mariner 9 ** Data archive, Deputy Mission PI, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Deimos, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Iapetus, Icy satellites, Io, Io torus, Moon, Phobos, Planetary rings, Small satellites, Vesta Photometry, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy Spectrometers
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Liz Jensen 		Cassini, MESSENGER ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation Earth, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Heliophysics, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy Cameras, Magnetometers, Spectrometers
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Catherine Johnson 		MESSENGER, OSIRIS-REx Asteroids, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Small satellites, Venus Tectonics, Volcanism, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Magnetospherics
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Georgiana Kramer 		Apollo, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Clementine, Dawn, Kaguya (Japan), LRO, Lunar Prospector ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Mission science team, Science operations Earth, Meteorites, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind, Vesta Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Geology, Geomorphology, Ground-based observing, Impacts, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mapping, Mass spectrometry, Mineralogy, Neutron spectroscopy, Petrology, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy Cameras, Spectrometers, Imaging spectrometers
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Larry Lebofsky 		Asteroids, Ceres, Dwarf planets, Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Meteorites, Moon, Pluto, Small satellites Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing
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Katelyn Lehman Franco 		Earth, Moon Field Work, Geochemistry, Geology, Meteoritics, Petrology, Planetary Interiors, Remote sensing, Volcanism Mass spectrometers, X-ray spectrometers
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Jose Martinez-Camacho 		LRO Mercury, Moon Numerical modeling, Radiometry, Remote sensing, Thermal modeling
tmccord's picture
Tom McCord 		Apollo, Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Dawn, Europa Clipper, Galileo, Mariner 9, Mars Express (ESA), Rosetta ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument PI, Mission science team, Optical design, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Comets, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Iapetus, Icy satellites, Mars, Mercury, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Titan, Vesta Geochemistry, Geology, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling Cerro Tololo, IRTF, Kitt Peak, Palomar ** Cameras, FTIR, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
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Scott Mest 		Dawn, LRO, Mars Odyssey, MRO Asteroids, Ceres, Dwarf planets, Mars, Moon, Vesta Remote sensing, Geology, Crater Counting, Geomorphology, Mapping
jmolaro's picture
Jamie Molaro 		OSIRIS-REx Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Enceladus, Europa, Icy satellites, Moon Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geomorphology, Numerical modeling, Thermal modeling
gmorgan's picture
Gareth Morgan 		LRO, MRO ** Instrument Co-Investigator Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Radar, Volcanism
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Catherine Neish 		Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), LRO ** Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Science operations Earth, Icy satellites, Mercury, Moon, Titan, Venus Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Impacts, Radar, Remote sensing, Volcanism
rnelson's picture
Robert Nelson 		Cassini, Voyager Asteroids, Comets, Dwarf planets, Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Io, Mercury, Moon, Small satellites, Titan Photometry, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy
eldar's picture
Eldar Noe Dobrea 		Dawn, LRO, Mars Express (ESA), Mars Odyssey, MER, MRO, MSL ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Science operations Asteroids, Ceres, Earth, Mars, Moon, Venus Astrobiology, Geology, Geomorphology, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy Cameras, FTIR, Spectrometers
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Eric Palmer 		Cassini, Dawn, OSIRIS-REx ** Data archive Icy satellites, Moon, Vesta
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Asmin Pathare 		Mars Polar Lander Mars, Moon Climate, Crater Counting, Geomorphology, Neutron spectroscopy, Thermal modeling
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Carle Pieters 		Chandrayaan 1 (India), Clementine, Dawn ** Instrument PI, Mission Co-Investigator Asteroids, Moon Laboratory Spectroscopy, Remote sensing Cameras, Imaging spectrometers
prettyman's picture
Thomas Prettyman 		Dawn, Lunar Prospector, Mars Odyssey, Psyche ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Electronics design, Flight Software, Instrument operations, Instrument PI, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Earth, Mars, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Vesta 3D Printing, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Geochemistry, Geology, Mapping, Neutron detectors, Neutron spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing, Shape modeling Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors
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Robert Reedy 		Apollo, Dawn, Kaguya (Japan), LDEF, Lunar Scout, Mars Observer, Mars Odyssey, NEAR Mars, Moon, Small satellites, Vesta Spectroscopy, Remote sensing, Neutron spectroscopy, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Mapping
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Jim Rice 		Apollo, LRO, Mariner 9, Mars 2020, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, MER, MRO, MSL, Phoenix Mars Lander ** Calibration/Test planning, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Science operations Mars, Moon Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Volcanism Cameras
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James Richardson Jr. 		Deep Impact, EPOXI ** Mission science team Asteroids, Comets, Icy satellites, Moon Geomorphology, Impacts, Numerical modeling, Radar Arecibo
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Kirby Runyon 		LRO, MRO, New Horizons ** Mission operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down Asteroids, Charon, Dwarf planets, Earth, Icy satellites, Io, Kuiper Belt, Mars, Moon, Pluto, Titan, Trans-Neptunian objects, Venus Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Impacts, Mapping, Remote sensing, Volcanism Cameras
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Aaron Russell 		MRO Mars, Moon Geology, Radar
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Norbert Schorghofer 		Dawn ** Mission science team Ceres, Earth, Mars, Moon Astrobiology, Climate, Field Work, Geomorphology, Numerical modeling, Thermal modeling
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Amanda Sickafoose 		Asteroids, Charon, Dwarf planets, Interplanetary Dust, Kuiper Belt, Moon, Planetary rings, Pluto, Trans-Neptunian objects Astrometry, Atmospheres, Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy Cerro Tololo, Gemini, IRTF, Kitt Peak, SOFIA ** Cameras, Dust counter, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
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Matt Siegler 		Apollo, Chang'E 1 (China), Chang'E 2 (China), CLPS 2022 Lunar South Pole, CLPS 2023 Lunar Crisium, LCROSS, LRO, Lunar Prospector, Mariner 10, Mars Insight, Mars Polar Lander, MESSENGER, OSIRIS-REx, Phoenix Mars Lander, VIPER ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Science operations Asteroids, Mars, Mercury, Moon Celestial Mechanics, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Neutron spectroscopy, Planetary Interiors, Radar, Remote sensing, Thermal modeling Arecibo, VLA ** Geothermal heat flow probes, Microwave radiometers, Seismometers, Thermal radiometers
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Luke Sollitt 		ACE, LCROSS ** Data validation, Mission Co-Investigator, Requirements generation and flow down Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Heliophysics, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy
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Matthew Staid 		Chandrayaan 1 (India) Earth, Moon Geology, Mapping, Mineralogy, Photometry, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Volcanism
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Jordan Steckloff 		Cassini, EPOXI, Stardust-NExT Asteroids, Ceres, Charon, Comets, Dwarf planets, Icy satellites, Kuiper Belt, Mercury, Moon, Pluto, Small satellites, Titan, Trans-Neptunian objects, Vesta Celestial Mechanics, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Numerical modeling, Thermal modeling
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Mark Sykes 		Dawn, HST, IRAS, ISO (ESA), MSX, NEOWISE, Spitzer ** Data archive, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Science operations Asteroids, Ceres, Charon, Comets, Deimos, Dwarf planets, Interplanetary Dust, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Phobos, Pluto, Small satellites, Vesta Ground-based observing, Photometry, Radiometry, Remote sensing, Space-based observing ALMA, IRTF, Kitt Peak, MMT, SMT
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David Vaniman 		MSL Earth, Mars, Moon Petrology, Volcanism, Geology, Ground-based observing, Mineralogy, Mapping
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Faith Vilas 		Hayabusa 1 (Japan), Hayabusa2 (Japan), LCROSS, LRO, MESSENGER ** Mission science team Asteroids, Dwarf planets, Iapetus, Mercury, Moon, Small satellites Ground-based observing, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy Cerro Tololo, MMT ** Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
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John Weirich 		OSIRIS-REx ** Spacecraft navigation Asteroids, Enceladus, Iapetus, Mercury, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites Geochemistry, Geology, Impacts, Mass spectrometry, Meteoritics, Mineralogy, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Shape modeling Electron Microprobe, Mass spectrometers
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Chuck Wood 		Cassini Moon, Titan Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Radar
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Stephen Wood 		Mars Polar Lander, Phoenix Mars Lander ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Flight Software, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Earth, Icy satellites, Mars, Mercury, Moon Astrobiology, Atmospheres, Climate, Geomorphology, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Radiometry, Remote sensing, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, FTIR
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Naoyuki Yamashita 		Dawn, Kaguya (Japan) ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team Asteroids, Ceres, Mars, Moon, Vesta Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Neutron spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors
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Aileen Yingst 		Dawn, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, MER, MSL ** Calibration/Test planning, Deputy Instrument PI, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument operations, Mission operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations Ceres, Earth, Mars, Moon, Vesta Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Volcanism Cameras
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Xiao-Duan Zou 		Chang'E 1 (China), Chang'E 2 (China), Chang'E 3 (China), OSIRIS-REx ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Mission science team, Science operations Asteroids, Comets, Moon Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Geomorphology, Impacts, Mapping, Photometry, Remote sensing, Shape modeling, Spectroscopy Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
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