MIKE THORPE
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  • Experience
  • Education
  • Research
  • DIGMARS Project
  • In the Press
  • Invited Talks
  • Outreach & Community Involvement
MIKE THORPE

DigMars Project

MEET OUR TEAM

Mike Thorpe

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Science Principal Investigator
​NASA JSC | JETS| Texas State University

Liz Rampe

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Principal Investigator
NASA Johnson Space Center

Joe Tamborski

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Co - Investigator
Old Dominion University

Kirsten Siebach

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Co - Investigator
​Rice University

Digging Iceland Geology for Mars Analog Research Science
DIGMARS is a NASA funded Solar System Workings (SSW) project that explores Iceland as a terrestrial analog for Mars.

​DIGMARS brings together a diverse set of skills and expertise contributing to their overall research seeking to understand how lakes in Iceland, a basalt dominated terrain, can inform scientists about surface and groundwater processes of early Mars, particularly places like Gale and Jezero craters.

2021 Field Season
The first field season for this project targeted Lake Sandvatn, a small name in southwest Iceland. Here, we deployed a thermal drone and conducted boat surveys to identify areas of potential groundwater discharge. Once we fixed in on these locations, we then drilled into the sediments and collected cores and groundwater to sample the composition of sediments at this unique interface. 

Meet Our CollaboratorS

Kennda Lynch

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Lunar and Planetary ​Institute

Juergen Thieme 

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Brookhaven National Lab​

Przemek Dera

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University of Hawaii​

Candice bedford 

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Lunar and Planetary Institute

Joel Hurowitz

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Stony Brook University​

Roy Christofferson

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NASA Johnson Space Center​

Gunnar Gudjonsson

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Iceland Space Agency​

Valerie TU 

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NASA Johnson Space Center| JETS

Nick Tosca

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​University of Cambridge

Daniel Leeb

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Iceland Space Agency​

Ryan Ewing 

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Texas A&M University​

Meet Our students

Audrey Putnam

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Ross Kovtun

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MD. Opu Sarker

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MarLO Wilcox

  Graduate Student
​Rice University​
                                  Graduate Student
                                     Rice University
               Graduate Student 
                 Old Dominion University​
     Undergraduate Student
​Rice University

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