Focus on Alumni

LPL alumna Joana Voigt (2022) and teams from the University of Arizona and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, combined images taken with NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and measurements from ground-penetrating radar to recreate a 3D model of every individual lava flow they could detect evidence of in Elysium Planitia.

Joshua Lothringer (2019), assistant professor in the department of physics at Utah Valley University, helped discover the presence of carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 light years from Earth using the JWST.

The Exocast team is joined by LPL alumna Nikole Lewis (2012), Professor and Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan institute at Cornell University.

Grinspoon earned his Ph.D. from LPL in 1989.

Ali Bramson (2018), assistant professor in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, explains how radar can be used to analyze a planet’s surface and what that could mean for the next mission to Mars.

Maria Steinrueck (2021) named 51 Pegasi b Fellow. The fellowship provides postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.

Sarah Hörst (2011) and Nikole Lewis (2012) team up to uncover properties of photochemical hazes in extrasolar planet atmospheres.

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft is hitching a ride to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with the privately-developed Hakuto-R moon lander. LPL Alum Barbara Cohen (2000) is the principal investigator for the Lunar Flashlight.

Barbara Cohen (2000) is the Lunar Flashlight principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Splace Flight Center.

Ali Bramson (2018) is part of Purdue's planetary science program, one of the largest programs in the country to use NASA spacecraft data to learn about the solar system.