Over the past three years, I worked with a wide range of remote sensing data products to investigate the compositions of hypothesized volcanic features on the Moon's surface known as irregular mare patches (IMPs). I characterized these features with the use of a suite of lunar orbiter instruments, such as the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), the Diviner Lunar Radiometer (Diviner), and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) and Wide Angle Camera (WAC).

This project allowed me to hone my skills in numerical analysis using interfaces like Python, Excel, and MATLAB, and spatial visualization tools such as ArcGIS and the Environment for Visualizing Images (ENVI). Understanding IMPs' formation mechanisms is essential to characterizing the volcanic and thermal evolution of the Moon. Constraining the timing and cessation of volcanism in the inner Solar System and the Earth-Moon system can yield information about the diversity of volcanic materials on rocky bodies and variations in differentiation processes.