Ishan Mishra

Title: Staff Scientist

Room Number: MR-206A

Mail Code: 100-22

Email (@ipac.caltech.edu): ishanm

Website: https://ishan-mishra.github.io/

Research Interests: I specialize in the spectrophotometric analysis of airless Solar System bodies, from asteroids to the satellites of giant planets. By measuring how reflected sunlight varies across wavelengths, viewing geometries, and (occasionally) time, I utilize analytical reflectance models to infer surface physical and chemical properties. This remote sensing approach offers a window into a body's evolutionary history, untangling the complex interplay between exogenic processes like space weathering and endogenic activity that exposes pristine interior materials.

Activities: Near-Earth Object Surveyor