UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Please join us in congratulating Kiana McFadden, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Thermal Modeling of Main Belt and Mars-Crossing Asteroids: Improved Constraints on Physical Properties from Extended WISE/NEOWISE Observations.

Congratulations, Kiana!

📸: Kiana is pictured with her Ph.D. advisors, Dr. Amy Mainzer and Dr. Jessica Barnes.

Please join us in congratulating Kana Ishimaru, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Probing the Alteration Histories of Primitive Carbonaceous Materials from the Asteroid to the Atomic Scale.

📸: Kana is pictured with her Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Jessica Barnes.

Congrats to all! LPL is proud of our alums! More information about the DPS prize winners can be found here: https://dps.aas.org/news/aas-division-for-planetary-sciences-announces-2026-prize-winners/

Kudos to Kayla!

Congratulations, 2026 Galileo Scholars!

Congratulations, Lucas! 🥳

A research team at LPL demonstrated that ground-penetrating radar mounted on drones can map the thickness of rocky debris covering glaciers on Earth. These results could help future astronauts locate accessible water locked in buried ice on Mars.

Drone radar reveals buried glaciers on Earth, guiding the search for water on Mars U of A researchers launched drones equipped with ground-penetrating radar over debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming that resemble buried ice deposits found on Mars.

Kudos to LPL graduate student Cole Meyer! 🎉

Kudos to Dingshan!

Congratulations, Beau and Jeremy!