Frances Bagenal | |
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 Bagenal in 2019 | |
| Born | (1954-11-04)4 November 1954 (age 71) Dorchester, Dorset, England |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University,Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Work onNASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist |
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| Fields | Planetary science |
| Institutions | NASA |
Frances "Fran" Bagenal (born 4 November 1954) is a Professor Emerita of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder and a Senior Research Scientist at theLaboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in the fields of spaceplasmas and planetarymagnetospheres.
Bagenal is fromDorchester, England, and grew up nearCambridge.[1]
Bagenal has worked on a number ofplanetary science missions including theVoyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment,Galileo,Deep Space 1,New Horizons mission toPluto, and theJuno mission toJupiter.[2] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[1] Bagenal chairedNASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.[3]She appeared inThe Farthest, a 2017 documentary on theVoyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including theNOVA 2019 miniseriesThe Planets.[4]
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