About Alfred S. McEwen
Born 1953. Alfred S. McEwen is an American geologist and astrophysicist, known for HiRISE.
Alfred McEwen is an American professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona. McEwen is a member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory where he is the director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory. He was a member of the imaging science team on the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn, co-investigator on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit Camera team, and principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
He earned a Ph.D. in Planetary Geology in 1988 from Arizona State University. In 2019, he received the G. K. Gilbert Award.
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Who is Alfred S. McEwen?
American planetary geologist
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Alfred S. McEwen was born in 1953.
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Alfred S. McEwen is a geologist and astrophysicist.
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Alfred S. McEwen is known for HiRISE.
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Alfred S. McEwen is American.
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