CAROLYN PORCO
BIOGRAPHY
- Born March 6, 1953. in New York City
- American planetary scientist
- Fields: planetary science and imaging science
- founder of The Day the Earth Smiled
EDUCATION
-Graduated in 1970 from Cardinal Spellmman High School in Bronx -Earned a bachelor ’s degree in Earth and Space Sciences from Stony Brook University in 1974. -received her Ph.D. degree in Planetary Sciences in 1983. -wrote her doctoral dissertation focused on Voyager discoveries in the rings of Saturn
CAREER
1983.-member of the Voyager Imaging Team-she was an active participant in the Voyager 2 encounters with Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in -the first person to describe the behavior of the eccentric ringlets and the "spokes" discovered by Voyager within the rings of Saturn -1990.-the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini-Huygens mission, an international mission that successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn -the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), which was the center of uplink and downlink operations for the Cassini imaging science experiment and the place where Cassini images are processed for release to the public -a member of the imaging team for the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
Awards and honors
- Porco asteroid
- Lennart Nilsson Aword-2009.
- AAS Carl Sagan Medal-2010.
- Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award-2011.
- Time 25 Most Influential People in Space-2012.
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CAROLYN PORCO
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
-Graduated in 1970 from Cardinal Spellmman High School in Bronx -Earned a bachelor ’s degree in Earth and Space Sciences from Stony Brook University in 1974. -received her Ph.D. degree in Planetary Sciences in 1983. -wrote her doctoral dissertation focused on Voyager discoveries in the rings of Saturn
CAREER
1983.-member of the Voyager Imaging Team-she was an active participant in the Voyager 2 encounters with Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in -the first person to describe the behavior of the eccentric ringlets and the "spokes" discovered by Voyager within the rings of Saturn -1990.-the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini-Huygens mission, an international mission that successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn -the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), which was the center of uplink and downlink operations for the Cassini imaging science experiment and the place where Cassini images are processed for release to the public -a member of the imaging team for the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
Awards and honors