Linda A. Morabito
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Linda A. Morabito-Kelly was employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the Voyager deep space missions as the a navigation engineer of the Optical Navigation Imaging Processing System (ONIPS). While surveying the photographs of the first encounter of the Voyager 1 spacecraft at Jupiter in 8 March 1979, she detected that the close moon of Jupiter, Io, shows on one of the photographs a 300-km tall cloud along its limb.[1]. This was the first time in history that active volcanism was detected outside of the earth. Later, she became the program development manager at The Planetary Society.
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- ^ Morabito, L. A.; et al. (1979). "Discovery of currently active extraterrestrial volcanism". Science 204: 972.
