Session 4
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Dr. Jon Hill
Dr. Jonathon Hill is a mission planner at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility where he operates the THEMIS camera currently orbiting Mars on NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. He previously operated the Mini-TES instruments on the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity for over five years, and supported mission operations for the OTES instrument on the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu. He is also the lead mission planner for the E-THEMIS instrument on NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which launched in 2024. He graduated from Arizona State University with degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Geological Sciences and Russian, and defended his PhD in Geological Sciences in Spring 2022, with a dissertation focused on automatically identifying and analyzing salt deposits in the southern highlands of Mars.
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