Dr. Shannon MacKenzie from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab will speak about the Enceladus Orbilander Mission Concept, ranked as the second highest priority flagship for NASA to pursue in the coming decade by the Origins, World, and Life Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey.

Dr. MacKenzie is a planetary scientist interested in the icy satellites of the outer solar system and the astrobiological opportunity they represent. She uses spacecraft data, field analogs, and computational models to study these worlds and prepare for missions to explore them. She serves as the Deputy Project Scientist on NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Titan and served as the PI of the Predecadal Mission Concept Study into flagship-level astrobiology missions at Enceladus.

Full Bio