{"id":74846,"date":"2025-05-12T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=74846"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:43:32","slug":"featured-spotlight-christopher-edwards-and-emily-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-christopher-edwards-and-emily-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Christopher Edwards and Emily Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\">Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) professor <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\">Christopher Edwards <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\">and postdoctoral scholar <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\">Emily Mason <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\">had their proposal for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Participating Scientist program selected for funding. Their proposal links surface dust lifting on Mars to its atmospheric conditions and includes operational roles on MSL through September 2028<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW55638156 BCX8\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW55638156 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-christopher-edwards-and-emily-mason\/\">Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) professor Christopher Edwards and postdoctoral scholar Emily Mason had their proposal for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Participating Scientist program selected for funding. Their proposal links surface dust lifting on Mars to its atmospheric conditions and includes operational roles on MSL through September 2028.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}