Current Grants

• Gravity investigation of density anomalies in the lunar subsurface as records of early geodynamics and tectonics: NASA LDAP Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), PI
• Gravity investigation of multi-ring basins and mascons: Forward and inverse modeling, and gravity gradiometry: NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Guest Scientist Program, PI
• Compressional tectonics and global strain on Mars, the Moon, and Mercury: NASA PGG, PI
• Recent explosive volcanism on Mars: NASA MDAP, PI
• The hydrology, climate, and sedimentary deposits of Meridiani Planum and Gale Crater: NASA SSW, PI
• Climatic control of explosive volcanism on Mars: NASA SSW, PI

Current Spacecraft Involvement

Former Spacecraft Involvement

• Co-Investigator on NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) (2012-2016)

Current Graduate Students

Former Postdocs

• Adrien Broquet
• Alex Evans
• David Horvath
• Pranabendu Moitra

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: J. C. Andrews-Hanna

Recent refereed publications (NASA ADS): Years 2019 through July 2024

Horvath, David G. & Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. The hydrology of the Jezero crater paleolake: Implications for the climate and limnology of the lake system from hydrological modeling

Liang, Weigang, Broquet, Adrien, Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C., Zhang, Nan, Ding, Min, & Evans, Alexander J. 2024, Nature Geoscience. Vestiges of a lunar ilmenite layer following mantle overturn revealed by gravity data

Broquet, A. & Andrews-Hanna, J. C. 2024, Icarus. A volcanic inventory of the Moon

Broquet, A. & Andrews-Hanna, J. C. 2024, Icarus. The moon before mare

Liang, W., Andrews-Hanna, J. C., Evans, A. J. 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. The Missing Craters and Basin Rings Beneath the Lunar Maria

Moruzzi, Samantha A., Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C., Schenk, Paul, & Johnson, Brandon C. 2023, Icarus. Pluto's Sputnik basin as a peak-ring or multiring basin: A comparative study

Siegler, Matthew A., Feng, Jianqing, Lehman-Franco, Katelyn, Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C., Economos, Rita C., Clair, Michael St., Million, Chase, Head, James W., Glotch, Timothy D., & White, Mackenzie N. 2023, Nature. Author Correction: Remote detection of a lunar granitic batholith at Compton-Belkovich

Siegler, Matthew A., Feng, Jianqing, Lehman-Franco, Katelyn, Andrews-Hanna, Jeffery C., Economos, Rita C., Clair, Michael St., Million, Chase, Head, James W., Glotch, Timothy D., & White, Mackenzie N. 2023, Nature. Remote detection of a lunar granitic batholith at Compton-Belkovich

Andrews-Hanna, J. C. & Broquet, A. 2023, Icarus. The history of global strain and geodynamics on Mars

Moruzzi, Samantha A., Kiefer, Walter S., & Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2023, Icarus. Thrust faulting on Venus: Tectonic modeling of the Vedma Dorsa Ridge Belt

Broquet, A. & Andrews-Hanna, J. C. 2023, Icarus. Plume-induced flood basalts on Hesperian Mars: An investigation of Hesperia Planum

Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2022, Nature Astronomy. Marsquakes coming into focus

Broquet, A. & Andrews-Hanna, J. C. 2022, Nature Astronomy. Geophysical evidence for an active mantle plume underneath Elysium Planitia on Mars

Jones, Matt J., Evans, Alexander J., Johnson, Brandon C., Weller, Matthew B., Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C., Tikoo, Sonia M., Keane, James T. 2022, Science Advances. A South Pole–Aitken impact origin of the lunar compositional asymmetry

Liang, Weigang & Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2022, Icarus. Probing the source of ancient linear gravity anomalies on the Moon

Horvath, David G., Moitra, Pranabendu, Hamilton, Christopher W., Craddock, Robert A., & Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2021, Icarus. Evidence for geologically recent explosive volcanism in Elysium Planitia, Mars

Horvath, David G. & Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. The hydrology and climate of Mars during the sedimentary infilling of Gale crater

Moitra, Pranabendu, Horvath, David G., & Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Investigating the roles of magmatic volatiles, ground ice and impact-triggering on a very recent and highly explosive volcanic eruption on Mars

Hood, L. L., Oliveira, J. S., Andrews-Hanna, J., Wieczorek, M. A., & Stewart, S. T. 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets). Magnetic Anomalies in Five Lunar Impact Basins: Implications for Impactor Trajectories and Inverse Modeling

Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. 2020, Icarus. The tectonic architecture of wrinkle ridges on Mars

Jansen, J. C., Andrews-Hanna, J. C., Milbury, C., Head, J. W., Li, Y., Melosh, H. J., & Zuber, M. T. 2019, Icarus. Radial gravity anomalies associated with the ejecta of the Orientale basin

• How the Moon Turned Itself Inside Out - April 8, 2024
• Giant Mantle Plume Reveals Mars is More Active than Previously Thought - December 5, 2022
• Volcanoes on Mars Could be Active, Raising Possibility that Planet was Recently Habitable - May 6, 2021
• Moon Maps, Lunar Origins and Everything Between - June 12, 2019

• View LPL Evening Lecture, September 6, 2017 - The Dark Side of the Moon
• View Summer Science Saturday Lecture, July 20, 2019 - The Scientific Legacy of Apollo
• View LPL Evening Lecture, October 16, 2024 - Lunar Time Machine: Traveling Back to the Earliest Days of Our Nearest Neighbor