Mark A. Wieczorek
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Mark A. Wieczorek
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Wieczorek, Mark
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Mark Wieczorek's research focuses on using geophysical data (topography, gravity, and magnetic fields) and remotely sensed geochemical data to decipher the interior structure and geologic evolution of the terrestrial planets and moons. He was a co-investigator of the orbiting SMART-1 and Chandrayaan-1 X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, and NASA's lunar gravity mapping mission GRAIL. In addition to his work with the Moon, he is a co-investigator associated with NASA's geophysical mission to Mars, Insight, NASA's mission to Psyche, and the laser altimeters on ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury and JUICE mission to Ganymede. He was the leader of the Planetary and Space Sciences group at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris from 2012 to 2016, and he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets from 2011 to 2015. He is currently a director of research (CNRS) at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange.
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