Amy Simon

Amy Simon ƙwararriyar ce a fannin kimiya koma  Ba'amurke a Cibiyar Kula da Jirgin Sama ta NASA ta Goddard, tana da hannu a cikin ayyuka da yawa na Shirin Binciken Tsarin Rana . 

 Ilimi 
Simon ta fito daga Union Township, Union County, New Jersey,  inda ta halarci Makarantar Sakandare .  Ta sami digiri na farko a Kimiyyar sararin samaniya daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta Florida a 1993  kuma an shigar da ita cikin Sigma Pi Sigma . Ta kammala karatun digirinta na digiri a ilmin taurari a Jami'ar Jihar New Mexico a 1998.  Bayan kammala karatun ta, ta zama masanin kimiyyar bincike na gaba da digiri a Jami'ar Cornell .

 Sana'a 
Simon Babban Masanin Kimiyya ne a Sashen Binciken Tsarin Hasken Rana a Cibiyar Jirgin Sama ta NASA 's Goddard Space Flight, wanda ya shiga NASA a matsayin ma'aikacin gwamnati a 2001. Ta yi aiki a matsayin Babban Jami'in Laboratory Systems na Planetary daga 2008 zuwa 2010 da Mataimakin Daraktan Sashen daga 2010 zuwa 2013. 

Binciken nata na kimiyya ya haɗa da nazarin abun da ke ciki, kuzari, da tsarin gajimare a cikin yanayin duniya na jovian, da farko daga abubuwan lura da jiragen sama, kuma ya zuwa 2023, ta rubuta fiye da 160 wallafe-wallafen da aka bita. 

Abubuwan da Simon ya samu sun haɗa da kasancewarta wani ɓangare na ayyukan jirgin sama na mutum-mutumi da haɓaka manufar manufa ta gaba. 

 Ayyuka 
Gudunmawarta sun haɗa da cikakken bincike na farko na sauya fasalin Jupiter 's Great Red Spot, da kuma binciken nau'ikan raƙuman ruwa da yawa a cikin yanayin Jupiter .    Binciken da ta yi game da Voyager 2, Cassini-Huygens, Hubble Space Telescope da New Horizons hotuna sun haifar da gano wasu sababbin nau'o'in raƙuman yanayi na Jupiter.   

Bayan Jupiter, ta yi karatun sinadarai na yanayi da kuzari akan Saturn, gami da hexagon arewa-polar.  Har ila yau, ta kasance cikin tawagar da ta lura da Neptune ta amfani da na'urar hangen nesa ta Kepler, gano motsin hasken rana a cikin hasken da ke haskakawa daga duniyar duniyar a karon farko.  

Simon yana shiga cikin ayyukan NASA na mutum-mutumi da yawa. Ta kasance mai binciken haɗin gwiwa a kan Cassini-Huygens Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) kuma mataimakin masanin kimiyyar kayan aiki na OSIRIS-REx Visible da IR Spectrometer (OVIRS), da kuma na Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor-2  kayan aiki da mataimakin babban mai binciken sararin samaniya Lph . 

Tun daga 2014, ta kasance babban mai binciken shirin Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL).  Ƙungiyarta ta gano sabon Babban Dark Spot akan Neptune tare da Hubble  kuma sun buga fiye da rubutun 12 daga bayanan OPAL.  Aikinta tare da OSIRIS-REX ya kai ga gano ma'adanai masu ruwa da ruwa a saman Bennu kuma ta sami lambar yabo ta NASA na Musamman na Nasarar Kimiyya. 

 Bincike 
Simon kuma yana shirin ayyukan binciken sararin samaniya a nan gaba. Ta yi aiki a Cibiyar Nazarin Sararin Samaniya ta ƙasa ta 2013 Binciken Decadal Science na Planetary Sciences .  Ta jagoranci karatun mishan da yawa don NASA ciki har da mishan ajin Flagship zuwa Enceladus da ga Giants Ice, Uranus, da Neptune .   Ita ce babbar mai bincike don shirin bincike na New Frontiers class Saturn, SPRIT .

Simon memba ne na Ƙungiyar Geophysical ta Amurka, Ƙungiyar Astronomical ta Amurka, da Sashen Kimiyyar Duniya .

 Girmamawa da kyaututtuka 

 Ƙungiyar Astronomical ta Amurka, Sashen Kimiyya na Duniya Claudia J. Alexander Prize - 2023 
 Kyautar Babban Babban ƙwararren Shugaban Ƙasa - 2022 
 Kyautar Jagorancin NASA - 2020 
 Kyautar Memorial na John C. Lindsay don Kimiyyar Sararin Samaniya - 2020 
 Medal Nasarar Nasarar Kimiyya ta NASA - 2019 
 Medal Nasarar Azurfa ta NASA (Ƙungiyar OVIRS) - 2017
 Kyautar Nasarar Rukunin NASA (Kungiyar OSIRIS-REx) - 2017
 Robert H. Goddard lambar yabo ta Kimiyya (Hubble OPAL Team) - 2016
 Robert H. Goddard Kyautar Nasarar Injiniya (Ƙungiyar OVIRS)
 Medal Na Musamman na NASA - 2016 
 Robert H. Goddard Injiniya Na Musamman (Ƙungiyar OVIRS) - 2014
 Medal Na Musamman na NASA - 2014 
 Asteroid 84994 Amysimon, wanda Catalina Sky Survey ya gano a cikin 2003, an ba shi suna a cikin girmamawarta.  Thearamar Planet Center ne ta buga  hukuma akan 14 ga Mayu 2014 (  ). 

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