Carolyn Porco
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 71 |
Date of birth | March 6,1953 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | The Bronx |
New York | |
United States | |
Discovered | Aegaeon |
Daphnis | |
Polydeuces | |
Pallene | |
Books | Captain's Log - the Voyage of the Spacecraft Cassini |
Fields | Planetary science |
Imaging science | |
Job | Astronomer |
Education | Stony Brook University |
Cardinal Spellman High School | |
California Institute of Technology | |
Cardinal Spellman | |
Awards | Lennart Nilsson Award |
Isaac Asimov Award | |
The American Humanist Association Isaac Asimov Science Award | |
Official site | carolynporco.com |
Doctor advisor | Peter Goldreich |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 547293 |
Carolyn Porco Life story
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn.