Linda A. Morabito
Astronomer
1953 –
Who is Linda A. Morabito?
Linda A. Morabito, also known as Linda Kelly, Linda Hyder, and Linda Morabito-Meyer, is the astronomer who made the discovery of volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter, on March 9, 1979, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At the time of her discovery, she was serving as Cognizant Engineer over the Optical Navigation Image Processing System on the Voyager deep space mission Navigation Team. While performing image processing analysis of a Voyager 1 picture taken for spacecraft navigation, she detected a 270 kilometres tall cloud off the limb of Io. The cloud was of volcanic origin. This was the first time in history that active volcanism was detected outside Earth. Her discovery is considered by some planetary scientists as the largest discovery of the planetary exploration program that has come out of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Morabito is currently an Associate Professor of Astronomy at Victor Valley College. Linda Morabito Meyer is also the author of her newly released memoir Parallel Universes, a Memoir from the Edges of Space and Time.
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- Born
- Nov 21, 1953
Vancouver - Also known as
- Linda Morabito
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Southern California
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on July 23, 2013
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