Dr. Roger Clark
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in Colorado
Targets of Interest: Asteroids, Ceres, Comet, 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
Disciplines/Techniques: Geology, Ground-Based Observing, Mapping, Mineralogy, Numerical Modeling, Photometry, Remote Sensing, Space-Based Observing, Spectroscopy
Missions: Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Europa Clipper, Galileo, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Observer, MRO, EMIT on the ISS
Instruments: Nims, Vims, CRISM, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, MISE, EMIT
Dr. Roger Clark studies the surface composition of solid surfaces in the Solar System; the detection and mapping of minerals, organics, and other materials with imaging spectroscopy; radiative transfer modeling; laboratory spectroscopy; and instrument design and calibration, from lab to spacecraft.
Active Projects
Extended Mission Support for the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT-Ext)
NASA Earth Ventures-Instrument Program
Project Team
External Partners
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TREX: Toolbox for Research and Exploration
NASA Solar System Exploration Virtual Institute
Principal Investigator
Project Team
External Partners
- Columbia U.
- UC Boulder
- U. Winnipeg
- CMU
- GSFC
- USRA
- DLR
- Illinois U.
- JSC
Understanding Radiation Processing and Alteration of Icy Regoliths
NASA Cassini Data Analysis Program
Principal Investigator
