Cosmic Geology Unveiled: Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna On Airless Celestial Bodies & Lunar Discoveries
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we dive into the captivating world of cosmic geology with Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna, a planetary geologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida. From our Moon to asteroids, Dr. Donaldson Hanna's work centers around airless celestial bodies – or any planetary body in our solar system without an atmosphere.
Dr. Donaldson Hanna's research methods are as fascinating as the celestial bodies she studies. She delves into the mysteries of airless bodies through telescopic observations, analysis and interpretation of both telescopic and spacecraft data, and even conducts laboratory measurements using remote sensing data.
Her expertise has been invaluable to various NASA missions, including her roles as a Co-Investigator on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment and a Participating Scientist on OSIRIS-REx.
Join us now to learn more about:
- What our research about the Moon tells us about its formation.
- Insights into the tectonic activity of the Moon and Mars.
- Planets within our solar system that are geologically active.
Don't miss the chance to delve deeper into the world of cosmic geology and learn more about the brilliant mind behind it all. Click here now to discover more about Dr. Donaldson Hanna and her exciting work!
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Carrie Donaldson, Hannah. She is a planetary |
| 0:44.6 | geologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at University of |
| 0:48.6 | Central Florida, UCF. So we're going to talk about I guess what are called |
| 0:52.4 | airless bodies, the moon, mercury, Mars, asteroids, etc. |
| 0:57.0 | And, you know, do these things change over time? |
| 1:00.0 | Do they evolve all what happens with them? |
| 1:02.0 | So, welcome Carrie, thanks for coming. Yeah, thanks for inviting. do they have all what happens with them so welcome carry |
| 1:03.0 | thanks for coming yeah thanks for inviting me to join your |
| 1:05.8 | podcast rich in no well tell me a bit about your background first and then you know |
| 1:10.5 | how you got to be interested in these airless bodies I guess we could say. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah airless bodies I think makes things sound a little bit more exotic. |
| 1:19.7 | But essentially what I really am interested in studying is any planetary body in our solar system that doesn't have an atmosphere and so that kind of rules out things like Mars and Venus and Earth and so I'm mostly focused on the Moon, Mercury and |
| 1:36.7 | Asteroids. And that area research really kind of started from an undergraduate |
| 1:42.4 | research project that I did when I was finishing |
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