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| ENGINEER NOMINATED BY NASA
In 1998, Hanna journeyed to the South Pole, Antarctica, where she spent a month preparing a telescope for intergalactic studies. She was also a member of the Mars Odyssey operations team that successfully placed the spacecraft into a safe orbit. During the 3-month aerobraking phase, Hanna helped to plan and predict propulsive maneuvers necessary to guide the spacecraft safely through the Martian atmosphere 330 times. Now in its science orbit, Odyssey has been mapping the surface of Mars, measuring radiation, and looking for water. Hanna is currently lending the experience that she gained from the Odyssey mission to the next Mars orbiter, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will launch in 2005, and the Titan Explorer, which will launch in 2010. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will map the Martian surface, distinguishing features less than one meter in size. The Titan Explorer will use a technique called aerocapture to explore Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. |
Jill Hanna, an aerospace engineer at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, designs future missions to Mars and Saturn.
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