Dr. Eric Palmer
Technology Director and Senior Scientist
Currently resides in Arizona
Targets of Interest: Icy Satellites, Moon, Vesta, Bennu, DART
Disciplines/Techniques: Stereo Photogrammetry
Missions: Cassini, DAWN, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa2, Rosetta
Instruments: Imaging Spectrometry, Geological Image Processing
Dr. Eric Palmer is interested in the stability and transport of carbon dioxide on Iapetus, the photolytic generation of carbon dioxide, and the aqueous alteration of the CM chondrites. He is an expert in the application of spectrophotoclinometric technics to the determination of small body topography, shape and surface scattering properties. He has developed navigation software for surface rovers using only a terrain model and the horizon.`
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