Abhinav Jindal

I am a planetary scientist and postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, where I study the processes that shape the surfaces of rocky and icy bodies in our solar system using remote sensing data. My current research primarily focuses on understanding the evolution of cometary surfaces using data from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Unlike previous missions that provided only brief snapshots of comet nuclei, Rosetta spent over two years orbiting 67P, allowing us to observe surface changes in unprecedented detail. However, many of these changes remain undetected due to the complexity of the dataset. We are working on developing tools to enhance the analysis of Rosetta’s vast imaging archive, as well as using thermophysical models to better understand how the sublimation of volatiles drives cometary surface evolution.