JI
Member Since 1983
Jonathan I I. Lunine
Chief Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Chief Scientist
2024 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1985
California Institute of Technology
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Carl Sagan Lecture
Received December 2017
James B. Macelwane Medal
Received December 1995
Union Fellow
Received January 1995
Publications
Channelized Thermal Emission, Promethean‐Type Jets and Surface Changes on Io From Juno Stellar Refer...

During Juno's close flybys of Io in 2023 and 2024, its low‐light sensitive Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) was used to conduct a high‐reso...

February 08, 2025
AGU Abstracts
The Juno Stellar Reference Unit's Imagery of Io
JUNO’S MULTI-INSTRUMENT VIEW OF IO, EUROPA, AND GANYMEDE I POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2024
Heidi N. Becker, Paul Schenk, Rosaly M. Lopes, Ale...
Junos use of its low-light Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera as a high-resolution science imager has greatly expanded the Missions observation ...
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Searching for Biosignatures in the Plume of Enceladus: The Case for Mass Spectrometry
ENCELADUS: THE STORYTELLER I POSTER
planetary sciences | 10 december 2024
Jonathan I. Lunine, Morgan L. Cable, Christopher R...
The recent detection of phosphorous-bearing compounds in Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer data (Postberg et al., 2023, Nature 618, 489-90) whets the appet...
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A broad set of solar and cosmochemical data indicates high C-N-O abundances for the solar system
SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES: SAMPLE RETURNS, JWST, GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMY, AND MORE PLUS OBSERVATIONS OF THE OSIRIS-REX SAMPLE RETURN REENTRY III ORAL
planetary sciences | 10 december 2024
Ngoc T. Truong, Christopher R. Glein, Jonathan I. ...
We examine the role of refractory organics as a major C carrier in the outer protosolar nebula andits implications for the compositions of large Kuipe...
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