OK, let
me return from the other planet I was on for some real talk — it may be too warm to wear this outfit in Houston anymore, but maybe my friends in the Midwest or East Coast can eek out a few more of these outfits (I mean, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow - so Spring should be here sooner than we can imagine!).
As a member of the Science Team of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, Chapman has been studying images and
other data
returned from the spacecraft's first flybys of Mercury and
from its primary and extended orbital missions around the
planet; he is Education Public Outreach liaison with the Science Team and, as a member of the Geology Discipline Group of the Science Team, he is helping to conduct searches for satellites of Mercury and putative vulcanoids, as well as concentrating on studies of Mercury's craters and geological processes and history.