astronomy

Sarah K. Noble

Sarah K. Noble is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sarah K. Noble rather than just read about it. In short: Sarah K. Noble (born 1975) is a planetary geologist and a program scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Key takeaways

Sarah K. Noble belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sarah K. Noble to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sarah K. Noble from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Sarah K. Noble (born 1975) is a planetary geologist and a program scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Her area of expertise is space weathering processes. She was the Program Scientist for NASA's LADEE spacecraft, and is the Program Scientist for the Psyche mission.

Career Sarah Noble earned her B.S. in geology with honor from the University of Minnesota in 1998, her M.S. in geological sciences from Brown University in 2000, and her Ph.D. in geological sciences from Brown University in 2004. In 1997 during her undergraduate studies, Noble was selected as a summer intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. After graduating, Noble worked as a congressional staffer with the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and then went on to serve as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In 2008 she became a NASA Postdoctoral Management Fellow at NASA Headquarters and later went on to a position as a research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Marshall Space Flight Center where she worked on lunar mapping and modeling and space weathering-related issues. From September 2010 – 2014, Noble split her time been working on a variety of research and program activities at the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Headquarters. In 2014 she began working at HQ full-time. She was the Program Scientist for the LADEE mission. She is also the Program Scientist for the Psyche mission and was the Deputy Program Scientist for Mars 2020 from January 2014 through April 2017. In addition to her scientific research, Noble is a painter, and much of her artistic work is inspired by space exploration and alien worlds.

Awards Noble has received many awards including a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship and NASA ROSES2010 Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research (LASER) grant. She has served as a Geological Society of America committee member and as an Association for Women Geoscientists board member. She has co-authored many scholarly articles about space weathering and the lunar surface. In August 2015, main-belt asteroid 133432 Sarahnoble was named in her honor.

References

External links NASA Solar System Exploration People: Profile of Sarah Noble, Planetary Geologist Sarah Noble and the Congressional Science Fellowship Women@NASA profiles:Sarah Noble

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sarah K. Noble

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sarah K. Noble claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sarah K. Noble before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sarah K. Noble ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sarah K. Noble

In research: Sarah K. Noble appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sarah K. Noble in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sarah K. Noble is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1975 births, Living people, People from Sherburne County, Minnesota, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sarah K. Noble outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sarah K. Noble in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Sarah K. Noble means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Sarah K. Noble in simple terms?

Sarah K. Noble (born 1975) is a planetary geologist and a program scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Why does Sarah K. Noble matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sarah K. Noble?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Sarah K. Noble.