Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is a research center for planetary science in Tucson, Arizona, founded in 1960 by astronomer Gerard Kuiper. It is also a graduate school, constituting the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona. The laboratory has served as principal investigator institution or instrument builder for a number of NASA missions, including the camera system on OSIRIS-REx, the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, described as the largest-aperture camera ever sent to another planet, camera systems and the TEGA instrument on the Phoenix mission, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer on Mars Odyssey, and imaging instruments flown on Cassini, the Huygens probe, and Voyager and Pioneer 10 and 11. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/