Margaret is a PhD candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. She has a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics from Northern Arizona University. She works with planetary image data to characterize the surface age of the polar ice deposits on Mars and numerical models to describe ice stability on Ceres, and is a member of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and Dawn at Ceres science teams.
Abstract: The Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres since March 2015, revolutionizing our understanding of the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. This talk will focus on new discoveries and new mysteries from Dawn’s exploration of Ceres, including the anomalously bright areas on the surface.