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Pictured are DAVINCI’s (left to right) Jim Garvin, mission principal investigator; Erika Kohler, acting deputy principal investigator; and Matthew Mullin, space laser engineer, evaluating flight data in real-time to adapt their future tests to the lessons learned from each flight. The researchers are standing in an area of Crater Island, Utah, which was the site of a series of tests (June 23-25, 2026) of the camera system that will one day fly aboard NASA’s DAVINCI mission probe to Venus.

Location: Crater Island