My research interests include impact craters and other time-varying phenomena on terrestrial planets. I have participated in science and operations on multiple missions including MRO, InSight, Europa Clipper, and Juno.
New research offer clues to Mars’s history, including what violent collisions it experienced in the past and how it lost its magnetic field. Professor Ingrid Daubar, former member of the InSight science team, commented on these recent studies, saying, “There are connections to our own planet, to how planets form in general and to how we understand different planets outside our solar system.”
New research is using tracks from dust devils to learn about the whirlwinds and potentially guide future mission planning. "Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," said Associate Professor Ingrid Daubar, lead author of the study. "The tracks they leave behind last longer, so we are able to observe them more thoroughly."
Two new papers, coauthored by Associate Professor Ingrid Daubar, show that meteoroids striking Mars produce seismic signals that can reach deeper into the planet than previously known. Researchers used machine learning to find more than 100 new impact craters near NASA's InSight lander on Mars, many of which could be responsible for seismic events previously thought to be natural marsquakes.
New images taken from space show how dust on and around InSight is changing over time — information that can help scientists learn more about the Red Planet. “Even though we’re no longer hearing from InSight, it’s still teaching us about Mars,” said science team member Ingrid Daubar, DEEPS Associate Professor (Research). “By monitoring how much dust collects on the surface — and how much gets vacuumed away by wind and dust devils — we learn more about the wind, dust cycle, and other processes that shape the planet.”
