Frances Bagenal

Frances "Fran" Bagenal (born 1954) is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.
Career.
Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, "Galileo", Deep Space 1, "New Horizons" mission to Pluto, and the "Juno" mission to Jupiter. Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist. Bagenal chairs NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.
She appeared in "The Farthest", a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including the NOVA 2019 miniseries The Planets.