NASA Postdoctoral Program - The Origin of Modified Optical Properties of Natural and Experimental Space-Weathered Materials

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific research opportunity focuses on space weathering processes that act on material exposed at the surface of planetary or small bodies. The research will analyze lunar breccias for evidence of preserved space weathering effects in component grains and clasts, using optical and electron microscope analysis for chemical compositions, mineralogy, and petrography. The fellowship is located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in the interdisciplinary science field, under the advisement of Dr. Lindsay P. Keller.