Lead for Citizen Science,Planetary Mapping,and Outreach, NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, NASA Ames Research Center

Brian Day is the Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling at NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). He is the program office manager for NASA’s Solar System Treks, online data visualization and analysis portals supporting mission planning, planetary science, and outreach. He has participated in various Mars analog field studies in extreme, Mars-like environments here on Earth. Brian served as the E/PO Lead for NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission that studied the Moon’s atmosphere. He also served as E/PO Lead for NASA’s LCROSS mission which discovered water ice at the Moon’s South Pole. In 2007 he flew on NASA’s Aurigid MAC mission, studying fragments of Comet Kiess burning up in Earth’s upper atmosphere. He is addicted to total solar eclipses and travels to strange places around the world for the thrill of standing in the Moon's shadow.