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Elizabeth Turtle

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Elizabeth Turtle
Born1967 (age 56–57)[1]
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.)
University of Arizona (Ph.D)
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary science
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Arizona
Planetary Science Institute
Thesis Finite-Element Modeling of Large Impact Craters: Implications for the Size of the Vredefort Structure and the Formation of Multiple Ring Craters
Doctoral advisorH. Jay Melosh

Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Education

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Turtle earned her B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1998.[2]

Research

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After earning her Ph.D., Turtle worked at the university in the Department of Planetary Sciences and at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 2006.[2]

Turtle was an associate of the imaging team on the Galileo mission[3] and an associate of the imaging and RADAR teams on the Cassini mission.[4] She also serves as a co-investigator working with the camera on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.[5] She has co-authored many scholarly articles about planetary impact features, surface processes, and planetary imaging and mapping.

Turtle is the Principal Investigator on the Europa Imaging System (EIS) instrument, which was selected for inclusion on the Europa Clipper to the moon Europa.[6] She is also the principal investigator of the Dragonfly spacecraft,[7] a mission proposal to the 2017 NASA New Frontiers mission solicitation, which was selected on 27 June 2019.[8] The mission entails a relocatable dual-quadcopter lander to investigate the surface composition and meteorology of Titan.[8]

In 2020, Turtle gave a Ted Talk on Titan, titled What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life.[9]

Turtle is the primary author on dozens of scientific publications and co-author on many more.[10]

Awards

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2008, 2009, 2010, 2015: NASA Group Achievement Awards - Cassini Titan Integration Science Team, Cassini Imaging Science Team, Cassini Titan Orbiter Science Team, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Team, LRO Extended Science Mission Team[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Turtle, Elizabeth Pope (1998). "Finite-element modeling of large impact craters: Implications for the size of the Vredefort structure and the formation of multiple ring craters".
  2. ^ a b "Elizabeth P. Turtle's CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Galileo - Overview". NASA Solar System Exploration. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  4. ^ "Overview | Cassini". NASA Solar System Exploration. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  5. ^ "Meet the LROC Team".
  6. ^ "NASA's Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  7. ^ NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL-Led Mission to Titan for Further Development Archived 2018-04-26 at the Wayback Machine. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Press release. 21 December 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034 (Update)". Phys.org. Agence France-Presse (AFP). 2019-07-04. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  9. ^ Turtle, Elizabeth "Zibi" (2020-08-28), What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life, retrieved 2023-11-13
  10. ^ ORCID. "Elizabeth P Turtle (0000-0003-1423-5751)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  11. ^ "JHUAPL - , Elizabeth, Turtle - Science Research Portal". secwww.jhuapl.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-04-18. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
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