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Margaret Kivelson

Distinguished Professor of Space Physics, Emerita in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret Kivelson and Galileo
Margaret Kivelson and Galileo Margaret Kivelson with the engineering model of the Galileo spacecraft in JPL's museum.Image: NASA / JPL

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Galileo at Amalthea
Galileo at 30: How a mission transformed our understanding of Jupiter

Thirty years after NASA’s Galileo spacecraft became the first to orbit Jupiter, scientists and engineers gathered to reflect on the mission that transformed how we see the giant planet and its moons.

Margaret Kivelson and Galileo
Legendary space physics pioneer Margaret Kivelson

A fascinating conversation with a space science and policy leader who is still hard at work in her 10th decade.

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