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Hirdy Miyamoto
Associate Professor of University of Tokyo
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Affiliate Scientist of
Planetary Science Institute |
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| My work seeks to understand inherent relationship between surface landforms
on terrestrial planets and their enviromental evolutions. Aspects of both
planetary and hazard-scientific are involved in my interests. Currently
I am working on developing numerical models of large-scale features on
terrestrial planets including those associated with lava flows, debris
flows, glacier flows, cataclysmic floods, and mantle convections. I have
been involved in most of the Japanese solid-body exploration missions.
I was a science team member of the Mars Dust Counter onboard the Nozomi
spacecraft, which was the first Japanese planetary mission (although it
did not achieve Mars orbit). I am a Co-Investigator for the imaging camera
of the Lunar-A mission as well as for the SELENE lunar mission, which will
be launched this summer. I worked as a Co-Investigator for the AMICA imaging
camera onboard the Hayabusa mission, which successfully rendezvoused with
a small asteroid, Itokawa. The size of this asteroid is 300m, which is
by far the smallest among those observed by spacecraft. Hayabusa found
that the surface of Itokawa is covered by both smooth and rough terrains,
which indicates the existence of regolith on its surface. I am now working
on the formational processes of the regolith through image analysis and
numerical modeling. |
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