Nancy Chabot

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Nancy Chabot
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Alma mater
Michael J. Drake

Nancy Chabot (born 1972) is a

.

Career

Nancy Chabot earned her B.A. in

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

On NASA's MESSENGER mission, she served as the Instrument Scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and the Chair of the Geology Discipline Group. She was the lead for MDIS-based scientific investigations of Mercury's polar, radar-bright, ice-bearing craters and led the release of web images since MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury in January 2008.[4]

Currently, she is the Deputy PI for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission.

She is also the Coordination Lead on NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which was led by APL.[5]

She is a Fellow of the

Meteoritical Society, and Asteroid (6899) Nancychabot is named in her honor.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Chabot, Nancy. "JHUAPL - , Nancy, Chabot - Science Research Portal". secwww.jhuapl.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  2. ^ Chabot, Nancy. "Geochemical studies of the cores of terrestrial planetary bodies". Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  3. ^ "MESSENGER Biographies". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
  4. ^ "1,000th Featured Image from MESSENGER Posted on the Project's Web Gallery". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
  5. ^ Bardan, Roxana (2022-10-11). "NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid's Motion in Space". NASA. Retrieved 2022-12-21.

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