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Natalie Accardo
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Advisor: Brad Jolliff
Abstract
A team of students during the summer of 2010 developed the Impact Recording and Imaging System (IRIS) as a Student Collaboration Project (SCP) for the MoonRise team (a proposed New Frontiers Mission). IRIS will observe and record meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface as a means of characterizing the lunar impact environment. To complete this goal IRIS must determine the variation in impact rate over the lunar surface as well as characterize lunar impactors. This investigation will ultimately aid in the understanding of lunar seismology, singular solar system dynamic events, and the impact hazard for the Earth Moon system. After much consideration, the IRIS mission as designed by the MoonRise SCP was accepted and incorporated into the final MoonRise proposal.
Natalie Accardo is currently a junior at Washington University in St. Louis. She is studying Geophysics as an Earth and Planetary Science major. She grew up mostly overseas in Europe and Asia but spent her high school years in Louisville, Kentucky. She aspires to attend graduate school and study planetary geology with the ultimate goal of working on planetary missions. She is currently continuing research involved with the MoonRise mission as well as a separate research project concerning seismic anisotropy in Antarctica.
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