After decades of heading NASA’s exploration of Saturn, Jupiter and their moons, the space physicist describes what we have learned and what future missions must now answer
Many people have worked on these discoveries, but Scott Bolton at the Southwest Research Institute’s Space Science & Engineering Division in San Antonio, Texas, has been a central figure.
After overseeing the Galileo mission to Jupiter between 1989 and 2003, he was the lead scientist on the Cassini mission that studied Saturn for 13 years until 2017 and is now at the helm of the Juno mission, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.spoke to him about his two decades of exploring the gas giants and what we still have to learn.
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