Linda A. Morabito-Kelly

Linda Morabito

Linda A. Morabito-Kelly (born November 21, 1953 in Vancouver , Canada ) is a former employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 missions to the outer planets . She worked as a navigation engineer for the optical navigation and image processing system ( Optical Navigation Imaging Processing System , ONIPS for short ).

When she examined photos of Voyager 1 from the planet Jupiter on March 8, 1979, she noticed a 300-kilometer-high cloud along the moon's edge in the photos of the moon Io . This was the first discovery of active volcanism on an alien celestial body . She later became Director of Program Development for the Planetary Society .

The asteroid (3106) Morabito was named after her.

Web links

Space Topics: Voyager - The Stories Behind the Missions .

Individual evidence

↑ LA Morabito, et al. : Discovery of currently active extraterrestrial volcanism . In: Science . 204, 1979, p. 972.

personal data
SURNAME	Morabito-Kelly, Linda A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American engineer, discovered volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vancouver , Canada

[Morabito1979-1] LA Morabito, et al. : Discovery of currently active extraterrestrial volcanism . In: Science . 204, 1979, p. 972.