Weekly Space Hangout: October 23, 2019 – Aileen Yingst: Space Geologist

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Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain)
Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz)
Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )
Veranika Klimovich ( @VeronikaSpace)

Dr. R. Aileen Yingst is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, a research institution headquartered in Tucson, AZ. She is Principal Investigator for the Heimdall camera system being built for a future lunar mission, and Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars Handlens Imager instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity. She is also a Co-Investigator on the newly-funded Dragonfly mission, an associate on the Dawn at Ceres mission and most recently served as Associate Principal Investigator on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Other missions that Dr. Yingst has worked on include Dawn at Vesta, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, and Galileo. Dr. Yingst served as Director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium for 14 years.

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