NASA Postdoctoral Program - Passive Sounding of Solar System Bodies Using Radio Astronomical Sources

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific opportunity focuses on passive radar sounding, an emerging technique that uses naturally occurring radio emissions to investigate planetary surfaces and subsurfaces. The research will advance scientific and technical understanding of passive radar sounding using planetary radio emissions, with applications to icy moons, Mars, and other planetary settings. Areas of interest include characterizing spectral and temporal properties of planetary emissions, improving methods for detection and depth retrieval, validating signal reflection models, and evaluating performance in realistic mission scenarios. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.