Lanza at the summit of Hvannadalsnukur, the highest mountain in Iceland, practicing glacier travel techniques similar to those needed for Antarctic fieldwork.
Nina Lanza was selected as one of eight members for the 2015-2016 field campaign of the Antarctica Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. Los Alamos scientist part of NASA's select few LOS ALAMOS, N.M. Nov. 3, 2015-Nina Lanza, of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Space and Remote Sensing group, was selected as one of eight members for the 2015-2016 field campaign of the Antarctica Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program, which is supported by NASA. "These meteorites can help us understand the formation and evolution of our solar system,” said Lanza. "They come from planets, their moons and asteroids. Few of these solar system bodies will be visited by NASA in our lifetimes and this is a superb opportunity to collect material from across the solar system without having to leave the Earth. The ANSMET program's mission is to find and collect meteorites in Antarctica.
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