Cynthia_B._Phillips
Cynthia B. Phillips
American planetary geologist
Cynthia B. Phillips (born 1973)[1] is an American planetary geologist who works for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A focus of her research has been Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, and she is project staff scientist and project science communications lead for the Europa Clipper spacecraft mission.[2] An expert on processing images from space missions to the planets and their moons, and on the geological processes operating within moons,[3] she has studied the effects of asteroid impacts on the surface of Europa,[4] and definitions of non-earth-based life that could apply on places like Europa that are outside the circumstellar habitable zone.[5]