Linda A. Morabito
Linda A. Morabito (born November 21, 1953), 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 (ONIPS) 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
(170 mi) tall cloud off the limb of Io. The cloud was of volcanic
origin.[1] 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 a memoir, Parallel Universes, a Memoir from the Edges of Space and Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_A._Morabito
Linda's recounting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanology_of_Io
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_features_on_Io
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Loki & Pele (front to back)
Linda's recounting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanology_of_Io
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_features_on_Io
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