• Question: What is this the biggest project you have worked on during your scientific career?

    Asked by EthanR to Naziyah, Namrah, John, Joanna, Hester, Ed, Adriana on 8 Mar 2021.
    • Photo: Naziyah Mahmood

      Naziyah Mahmood answered on 8 Mar 2021:

      That’s hard to say as each project had it’s own impact.

      I was a part of the team who was working on finding the mysterious Higgs boson, using data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It forms a part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which is at the heart of much of what we know about physics and science 🙂

      I also worked on a mission to send a lander to the moon, to deploy a special kind of ‘smart-dust’ which would be able to tell us more about the moons climate and environment.

      There was also CryoSat-2, and ESA mission which helps us to understand the impact of climate change on the Earth.

      To be fair, some of my more fun ones were lesser known ones though that still made big impact 🙂
      (Like using GNSS (e.g, GPS) systems to track pirates!)

    • Photo: Namrah Habib

      Namrah Habib answered on 9 Mar 2021: last edited 9 Mar 2021 11:59 am

      The biggest project I worked on was the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission! OSIRIS-REx is an asteroid sample return mission that sent a spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid called Bennu and studied and surveyed this asteroid for 2 years and then collected a sample from the surface of Bennu. The sample collection took place last October and spacecraft is now on its way back to Earth with the sample! I worked on the image processing team for this mission where we worked to use the images to make maps of Bennu so we could decide where to sample on the asteroid. I really loved working for this mission and it is by far my biggest project that I have been a part of!

      Here is the link to the OSIRIS-REx mission if you would like to learn more: https://www.asteroidmission.org/

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