A Talented Team

The CRISM team includes expertise from universities, government agencies and small businesses in the United States and abroad.

Principal Investigator S. Murchie, of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), heads the CRISM project. APL, which has built more than 150 spacecraft instruments over the past four decades, also led the effort to develop, integrate and test CRISM and is operating it in flight.

CRISM's co-investigators are top planetary scientists from Brown University, Arizona State University, Space Science Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Paris, the Applied Coherent Technology Corporation, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center and Johnson Space Center.

The CRISM team is divided by its functions into smaller subteams, each of which focuses on running a different part of the investigation:

• Principal investigator
• Surface composition
• Surface geology
• Atmospheric properties
• Science operations
• Engineering development
• Education and Public Outreach