Christensen Research Group

CREATING INSTRUMENTS, SOFTWARE, AND RESEARCH FOR SPACE EXPLORATION, AS PART OF ASU’S MARS SPACE FLIGHT FACILITY

Designing Instruments

In our instrument creation role, we design and operate remote-sensing instruments on robotic planetary missions.

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View 'Live' from Mars

Every week, THEMIS takes several hundred images of the surface of Mars, and you can see them here as they are received by mission scientists.

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  • Project Asteroid – Mapping Bennu

  • Phil Christensen talks about OTES and how an instrument is prepared and tested for space travel. He also explains why it’s important to test an instrument even after it has been launched.

View Mars Images

Look through every image of Mars, from all of our instruments as well as compilations and renderings.