{"id":3895,"date":"2020-12-02T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2020-12-21T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:36:52","slug":"nau-planetary-scientist-named-key-partner-on-nasas-lunar-trailblazer-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/nau-planetary-scientist-named-key-partner-on-nasas-lunar-trailblazer-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU planetary scientist named key partner on NASA\u2019s Lunar Trailblazer mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7954 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/Edwards-600x544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" \/>The relatively tiny Trailblazer satellite, which will measure just 3.5 meters in length with its solar panels fully deployed, will spend more than a year orbiting the Moon at a height of 100 kilometers, scanning it with two instruments on board. <strong>Christopher Edwards<\/strong>, assistant professor in NAU\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, will contribute to the instrumentation being developed for the satellite:  a visible-shortwave infrared imaging spectrometer built by JPL and a multispectral thermal imager built by the University of Oxford. NAU doctoral student <strong>Christian Tai Udovicic<\/strong> and postdoctoral scholar <strong>Jennifer Buz<\/strong> will also be involved in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/nau-research\/lunar-trailblazer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relatively tiny Trailblazer satellite, which will measure just 3.5 meters in length with its solar panels fully deployed, will spend more than a year orbiting the Moon at a height of 100 kilometers, scanning it with two instruments on board. Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in NAU\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, will contribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}