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Ellis Miner
Retired Planetary Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ellis D. Miner, a retired planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, served from 1978 to 1990 as assistant (or deputy) project scientist for the Voyager misisons. His career spanned the 1969 Mariner 7 to Mars to the Cassini mission to Saturn, which arrived at Saturn in 2004 shortly before his retirement.