Name Nancy Chabot | ||
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Institutions Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Case Western Reserve University
NASA Alma mater Rice University, University of Arizona Fields Planetary science, Physics Institution Applied Physics Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University, NASA | ||
MESSENGER What are we learning at Mercury? -- Dr. Nancy Chabot
Nancy Chabot is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Career
Nancy Chabot earned her undergraduate degree in physics from Rice University. After earning her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona, Chabot worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, then at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She has been a member of five field teams that traveled to Antarctica with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program to collect meteorites.
Chabot also serves as the instrument scientist for MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and contributes to the development of MESSENGER’s imaging campaigns. She is the lead for MDIS-based scientific investigations of Mercury's polar, radar-bright, ice-bearing craters and has been leading the release of web images since MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury in January 2008.