Carolyn Porco - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Carolyn Porco net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Carolyn C. Porco, born March 6, 1953, is an American planetary scientist. She began her exploration of the outer solar system with her imaging work on Voyager missions to Jupiter and Saturn in the 1980s. She was the leader of the Cassini imaging science team, which orbited Saturn. Cassini was then de-orbited to be buried in Saturn’s upper atmosphere on September 15, 2017. She is an expert in the Saturnian moon Enceladus and the planetary rings. In this article, we will discover how old is Carolyn Porco? Who is Carolyn Porco dating now & how much money does Carolyn Porco have?

Carolyn Porco Biography

Carolyn Porco is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on March 6, 1953 in Bronx, New York, United States. Dr. Porco joined University of Arizona’s faculty in the fall 1983. She was also made a member of Voyager Imaging Team that same year. She was active in the Voyager 2 encounters in 1986 and 1989 with Uranus. In 1989, she led the Voyager Imaging Team’s Rings Working Group during the Neptune encounter.

In November 1990, Porco was selected as the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini-Huygens mission, an international mission that successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn and deployed the atmospheric Huygens probe to Saturn’s largest satellite, Titan. She is also the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), which was the center of uplink and downlink operations for the Cassini imaging science experiment and the place where Cassini images are processed for release to the public. CICLOPS is part of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

As a young Voyager scientist, she was the first person to describe the behavior of the eccentric ringlets and the “spokes” discovered by Voyager within the rings of Saturn; to elucidate the mechanism by which the outer Uranian rings were being shepherded by the Voyager-discovered moons Cordelia and Ophelia; and to provide an explanation for the shepherding of the rings arcs of Neptune by the moon Galatea, also discovered by Voyager. She was a co-originator of the idea to take a ‘portrait of the planets’ with the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and participated in the planning, design, and execution of those images in 1990, including the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth.

Porco was a member of the University of Arizona faculty from 1983 to 2001. She was awarded tenured professorship in 1992. She was a professor of both undergraduates and graduates. She was also one of five finalists to the University of Arizona Honors Center Five Star Faculty Award. This award is campus-wide student-nominated and student-judged and recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching.

She received a B.S. In 1974, she received a B.S. in Earth and Space Sciences at Stony Brook University. In 1983, she received her Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences from the California Institute of Technology’s Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. She was guided by Peter Goldreich, a dynamicist, as she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Voyager discoveries within the rings of Saturn.

Porco has been an active participant in guiding the American planetary exploration program through membership on many important NASA advisory committees, including the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee, the Mars Observer Recovery Study Team, and the Solar System Road Map Development Team. In the mid-1990s, she served as the chairperson for a small NASA advisory working group to study and develop future outer solar system missions and she served as the Vice Chairperson of the Steering Group for the first Solar System Decadal Survey, sponsored by NASA and the National Academy of Sciences.

Carolyn Porco Net Worth

Carolyn is one of the richest Astronomer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carolyn Porco's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Porco was born in New York City. In 1970, she graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in Bronx.

Porco was founder of The Day the Earth Smiled. She was also responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker by sending his cremains to the Moon aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1998.

In 1999, Porco was selected by The Sunday Times (London) as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industry Week as one of 50 Stars to Watch. In 2008 she was chosen to be on Wired magazine’s inaugural ‘Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To.’

Ethnicity, religion & political views

Many peoples want to know what is Carolyn Porco ethnicity, nationality, Ancestry & Race? Let's check it out! As per public resource, IMDb & Wikipedia, Carolyn Porco's ethnicity is Not Known. We will update Carolyn Porco's religion & political views in this article. Please check the article again after few days.

Porco served as an adviser for the film Contact (1997), which was based on a novel by the well-known astronomer Carl Sagan. The actress Jodie Foster portrayed the heroine in the movie, and Sagan reportedly suggested that she use Porco as a real-life model to guide her performance.

Who is Carolyn Porco Dating?

According to our records, Carolyn Porco is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Carolyn Porco’s is not dating anyone.

Porco is fascinated by the 1960s and The Beatles and has, at times, incorporated references to The Beatles and their music into her presentations, writings, and press releases. The first color image released by Cassini to the public was an image of Jupiter, taken during Cassini’ s approach to the giant planet and released on October 9, 2000 to honor John Lennon’s 60th birthday. In 2006, she produced and directed a brief 8-minute movie of 64 of Cassini’ s most spectacular images, put to the music of the Beatles, in honor of Paul McCartney’s 64th birthday. And in 2007, she produced a poster showing 64 scenes from Saturn.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Carolyn Porco height Not available right now. Carolyn weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

In 1994, Porco was a member of a committee (chaired by Carl Sagan) entitled “Public Communication of NASA’s Science”, and in 1999, she reviewed a biography of Sagan for The Guardian. Her popular science articles have been published in The Sunday Times, Astronomy, the Arizona Daily Star, Sky & Telescope, American Scientist, and Scientific American. She is active in the presentation of science to the public as the leader of the Cassini Imaging Team, as the creator/editor of the website where Cassini images are posted. She writes the site’s homepage “Captain’s Log” greeting to the public. She is an atheist.

Porco has been a regular CNN guest analyst and consultant on astronomy, has made many radio and television appearances explaining science to the lay audience, including appearances on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, CBS’s 60 Minutes, Peter Jennings’s The Century, and TV documentaries on planetary exploration such as The Planets on the Discovery Channel and the BBC, A Traveler’s Guide to the Planets on the National Geographic Channel, Horizon on the BBC, and a Nova Cassini special on PBS. For the 2003 A&E special on the Voyager mission entitled Cosmic Journey: The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message, Porco appeared onscreen and also served as the show’s science advisor and animation director.

Facts & Trivia

Carolyn Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carolyn Porco celebrates birthday on March 6 of every year.

Porco speaks frequently on the Cassini mission and planetary exploration in general, and has appeared at renowned conferences such as PopTech 2005 and TED (2007, 2009). She attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium on November 2006.

What is Carolyn Porco doing now?

Porco is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Where did Carolyn Porco grow up?

Porco was born into an Italian working-class family in New York City in 1953. She grew up alongside four brothers in the Bronx. Her interest in astronomy came about during an adolescent spiritual quest, which led her to study eastern religions and philosophy.

Where was Carolyn Porco born?

Bronx, New York, NY

What did Carolyn Porco discover?

Discovered

Are there any earth like exoplanets?

Proxima Centauri b Proxima Centauri b is located just four light-years away from Earth, making it Earth’s closest known exoplanet, according to NASA Exoplanet Exploration. The exoplanet, which was discovered in 2016, has a mass that is 1.27 times that of Earth’s.

ncG1vNJzZmiZnKGzornOrqqboaKptaWt2GeaqKVfmK6zu8uypWaon6ewsHs%3D