By Suzanne Stewart, The Pocahontas Times
DURBIN, W.Va. — Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Hanna Sizemore was the guest speaker at the February 25 Durbin Lions Club meeting, where she talked about the field research she did in the Arctic last year.
Sizemore, who is a native of Pocahontas County, works out of an office at the Green Bank Observatory for PSI, a NASA contractor. Most of her research is related to the space craft that are in orbit around Mars, on the surface of Mars or in orbit around the main asteroid belt.
“Typically, I’m spread between multiple NASA projects, so at any given time – five to seven different things are going on which are funded separately,” she said.
Sizemore explained that she studies ground ice which is exactly what it sounds like – ice in the dirt.
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