Inge ten Kate, Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Heliophysics and Solar System Division

GSFC Code:

699.0

Mailing Address:

Atmospheric Experiments Laboratory
Solar System Divisions
Building 33, Room D220
NASA GSFC, Code 699.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6380

Fax:

Email:

inge.l.tenkate@nasa.gov

Most Recent Publication:

ten Kate I. L., J. S. Canham, P. G. Conrad, T. Errigo, I. Katz, P. R. Mahaffy (2008), Mitigation of the impact of terrestrial contamination on organic measurements from the Mars Science Laboratory, Astrobiology, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0160.

Research Interests:

Dr Ten Kate's interests are on the boundary between instruments and science. She is very interested in soil and atmospheric analysis of solid solar system bodies, such as the Moon, Mars and Titan, not only in the chemical processes occurring on the surfaces of these bodies, but also in the development of the instrumentation needed to carry out those studies. In her research her focus is on laboratory simulations in dedicated simulation facilities.

Biography:

Dr. Inge Loes ten Kate obtained her MS in aerospace engineering from Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, in 1999, where she graduated with a thesis on the design of an aerocapture manoeuvre around Mars. During her studies she did an internship at Arianespace working on Ariane 4 and 5 flight data analysis. After her graduation she worked at the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, the Netherlands, on signal validation of GalileoSat, the European satellite navigation system. A change in working area led to her PhD in 2006 in Astronomy / Planetary Sciences, with a thesis entitled "Organics on Mars - Laboratory studies of organic material under simulated martian conditions". Since September 2006 she has worked for GEST at Goddard Space Flight Center.