Alfred McEwen
American planetary geologist
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Alfred McEwen is an American professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona. McEwen is a member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory where he is the director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory. He was a member of the imaging science team on the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn, co-investigator on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit Camera team, and principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.[1]
Alfred McEwen | |
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McEwen speaks during the First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars, 2015 | |
| Alma mater | Arizona State University |
| Known for | HiRISE |
| Awards | Whipple Award, G. K. Gilbert Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Planetary Geology |
| Institutions | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory |
Doctoral students | |
| Website | www |
He earned a Ph.D. in Planetary Geology in 1988 from Arizona State University.[1]
McEwen participated in the Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, and Galileo spacecraft missions.[1]
In 2015, McEwen received the Whipple Award for his work on HiRISE.[2] In 2019, he received the G. K. Gilbert Award.[3]
Bibliography
- McEwen, Alfred S. (May 2013). "Mars in motion". Planetary Science. Scientific American. 308 (5): 44–51. Bibcode:2013SciAm.308e..58M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0513-58. PMID 23627221. Retrieved 2016-02-09.[4]