{"id":6352,"date":"2024-10-20T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2024-10-25T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:09:31","slug":"crater-of-mars-named-of-impact-cratering-scientist-dr-nadine-barlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/crater-of-mars-named-of-impact-cratering-scientist-dr-nadine-barlow\/","title":{"rendered":"Crater of Mars named of impact cratering scientist, Dr. Nadine Barlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USGS Post of Oct. 20, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On September 27, 2024, the name Barlow was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for a prominent, ~87 km-diameter crater located in the northern portion of Sinai Planum (11.65\u00b0S, 270.09\u00b0E) on Mars. The name approval commemorates Dr. Nadine Barlow (1958\u20132020), Northern Arizona University professor and noted leader in the field of Mars crater studies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/centers\/astrogeology-science-center\/news\/crater-mars-named-after-impact-cratering-scientist-dr\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/centers\/astrogeology-science-center\/news\/crater-mars-named-after-impact-cratering-scientist-dr<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6351\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-uncropped-large wp-image-6351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/BarlowCrater.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image:  USGS Astrogeology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USGS Post of Oct. 20, 2024. On September 27, 2024, the name Barlow was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for a prominent, ~87 km-diameter crater located in the northern portion of Sinai Planum (11.65\u00b0S, 270.09\u00b0E) on Mars. The name approval commemorates Dr. Nadine Barlow (1958\u20132020), Northern Arizona University professor and noted leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[310,309],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-barlow-crater","tag-nadine-barlow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","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=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6355,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}