Deborah Domingue

Dr. Deborah Domingue is an expert in the spectrophotometric properties of planetary regoliths. She has studied such diverse objects as icy satellites, asteroids, Mercury, and the Moon. Her science includes the examination of regolith physical structures and their relationship to regolith formation and alteration processes. Her work includes the study of space weathering on airless bodies, the spectroscopic variability with morphologic terrains, and formation of exospheres.

She served as the Science and Mission Operations Liaison on the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission and the Deputy Project Scientist for the MESSENGER mission. She is a Participating Scientist on the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission and is currently PI on several research projects, and co-investigator on several more (see below). She has expertise in integrating instrument operations, leading science operations, and conducting cutting-edge research involving the analysis of camera and spectrometer data sets.