Dr. Alex Patthoff
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in California
Targets of Interest: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton
Disciplines/Techniques: Geological Mapping, Tectonics, Structural Geology, Tidal Stress, Surface Processes
Main interests: Icy moons of the outer solar system, tectonics, geologic mapping, surface processes, tidal stresses, structural geology
Active Projects
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Tectonic history, thermal evolution, and interior structure of the Uranian satellites Miranda and Ariel
NASA Solar System Workings Program
Institutional PI
Alex Patthoff
External Partners
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Building a Global Geologic Map of Dione: Contributing to a Comparative Planetological Framework for Ocean Worlds
NASA Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools Program
Institutional PI
Alex Patthoff
External Partners
- Smithsonian Institution
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RELATED COVER STORIES & PRESS RELEASES
Evidence of a past, deep ocean on Uranian moon, Ariel
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Is there an ocean lurking beneath one of Uranus’ moons?
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PSI LPSC Poster Presentations Tuesday March 19, 2019
March 19, 2019
Saturn’s moon Dione Covered by Mysterious Stripes
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