Elizabeth Turtle

Career

Elizabeth Turtle earned her undergraduate degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. After earning her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1998, 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 and an associate of the imaging and RADAR teams on the Cassini mission. She also serves as a co-investigator working with the camera on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.[3] 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.[4] She is also the principal investigator of the Dragonfly spacecraft,[5] a mission proposal to the 2017 NASA New Frontiers mission solicitation, which was selected on 27 June 2019.[6] The mission entails a relocatable dual-quadcopter lander to investigate the surface composition and meteorology of Titan.[6]

References
  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. "Elizabeth P. Turtle's CV" (PDF).
  3. "Meet the LROC Team".
  4. "NASA's Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments". 26 May 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL-Led Mission to Titan for Further Development. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Press release. 21 December 2017.
  6. "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.


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