Cassini Scientist for a Day
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Dr. Morgan L. Cable is a Research Scientist in the Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. She is also a Project Science Systems Engineer for the Cassini Mission, which has been exploring the Saturn system for over 10 years.
Morgan’s research focuses on organic and biomarker detection strategies, through both in situ and remote sensing techniques. While earning her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, she designed receptor sites for the detection of bacterial spores, the toughest form of life. As a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at JPL, Morgan developed novel protocols to analyze organics such as amines and fatty acids using small, portable microfluidic sensors. She is currently working as a Collaborator on the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE), an instrument selected for NASA’s next mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa; this spectrometer will map Europa’s surface and search for organics, salts and minerals.
Dr. Morgan Cable
Research Scientist, NASA
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Dr. Allan Y. Lee
Spacecraft Engineer, NASA
Dr. Allan Y. Lee received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. From 1989 until today, he works on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. For more than 20 years, he supported the design, build, test, launch, and mission operations of the spacecraft. He has also supported other interplanetary missions including the Mars Science Laboratory, Galileo Jupiter mission, Deep Impact, Kepler, Mars Odyssey, and Dawn (exploration of the asteroids Vesta and Ceres).
He was awarded two NASA exceptional service medals. He has also authored and coauthored more than 60 journal and conference papers, and two book chapters in engineering, technology, and applied science.