Diana Blaney
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Diana Lee Blaney is an American planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a former chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
Blaney's research focuses on instrumentation for space missions to determine the chemical composition of bodies in the Solar System, including "directing the infrared instrument" on the Spirit rover on Mars,[1] and serving as principal investigator for the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa, a planned mission to study the surface and internal water ocean of Europa.[2]