Professor Carle Pieters has been a faculty member at Brown University since 1980, after having worked several years at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sarawak. Her general research efforts include planetary exploration and evolution of planetary surfaces with an emphasis on remote compositional analyses. Dr. Pieters is the Science Manager of the NASA/Keck Reflectance Experiment Laboratory (RELAB), a NASA-supported spectroscopy facility at Brown that operates from 0.3 to 25 mm. She is Principal Investigator for NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) experiment that was launched to the Moon in early 2008 and is Co-Investigator on Dawn, a mission to explore the asteroids Vesta and Ceres.

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