Dr. Marissa Vogt

Research interests: planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres, and aurora

Dr. Marissa Vogt is a Participating Scientist with NASA’s Juno Mission, which has been in a polar orbit around Jupiter since 2016. She uses data from Juno, the Galileo mission to Jupiter (1996-2003), and the Hubble Space Telescope to study Jupiter’s magnetosphere and aurora. Her work focuses on understanding how mass and energy are transported through the magnetosphere, how tail reconnection contributes to plasma transport at Jupiter, the relative roles of internal processes vs. the solar wind in driving magnetospheric dynamics, and how features in Jupiter’s aurora are related to magnetospheric source regions and processes. Dr. Vogt has also studied the Martian ionosphere as a member of the science team for NASA's MAVEN mission, which entered Mars orbit in 2014.

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