Carolyn Porco
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A specialist in planetary astronomy, she is Researcher at the Colorado Space Science Institute and a renowned interpreter of NASA space mission photographs. She received her PhD from the Department of Planetary and Geological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She was part of the team responsible for analysing the thousands of photographs and data sent by the Voyager II mission to the planet Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989). She directed the imaging team of the Cassini-Huygens probe and the Central Imaging Laboratory of the Colorado Space Science Institute, as well as Diamond Sky Productions, a company dedicated to disseminating science and the artistic, graphic and computer processing of planetary images. She collaborates with publications such as The Guardian, American Scientist and The London Sunday Times. She was awarded the Isaac Asimov Prize and the Carl Sagan Medal. In 1998, Asteroid 7231 was renamed «Asteroid 7231 Porco» in her honour.
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