Institutions NASA Name Frances Bagenal | Fields Planetary science Institution NASA | |
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Known for Work on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist Alma mater Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
Frances (Fran) Bagenal (born 1954) is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.
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Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter. Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist. Bagenal chairs NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer solar system. Her career research endeavors have earned 4412 citations and she has an h-index of 38. She was selected to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.