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 |
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| Fields | Planetary Geology |
| Institutions | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory |
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| Website | www |
Alfred McEwen is an American professor of planetary geology at theUniversity of Arizona. McEwen is a member of theLunar and Planetary Laboratory where he is the director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory. He was a member of the imaging science team on theCassini–Huygens mission to Saturn, co-investigator on theLunar Reconnaissance Orbit Camera team, and principal investigator of theHigh Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard theMars Reconnaissance Orbiter.[1]
He earned a Ph.D. in Planetary Geology in 1988 fromArizona State University.[1]
McEwen participated in theMars Odyssey,Mars Global Surveyor, andGalileo spacecraft missions.[1]
In 2015, McEwen received theWhipple Award for his work onHiRISE.[2] In 2019, he received theG. K. Gilbert Award.[3]
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