Carl Sagan Accomplishments

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was a leading scientist who took on a major role in science with his involvement in new research, media, and his taking to authorship. Sagan is credited as the most famous scientist of the 1970s and 1980s, with his notoriety deriving from his popularity in the scientific community for his research and gained fame with the general populace from his ability to bring astronomy to more people outside of the field. His accomplishments started after he finished his studies with a doctorate degree, where he helped to create an infrared radiometer in the Mariner 2 probe for NASA at the University of California, Berkeley. From then, his accomplishments continued with looking into theories of extraterrestrial life, where he even

Furthermore, Sagan was able to identify the physical compositions of planets throughout his career. For example, he was ale to identify dark shaded areas on Mars as higher elevated than lighter areas in the imaging scientists had collected. Moreover, Sagan 's accomplishments stretch beyond physical research of planets with his celebrity status in the media. He is mostly well-known for his television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and he was known as a consultant for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, the books he had authored also helped him gain popularity and added to his accomplishments. Such books like Other Worlds, The Cosmic Collection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective, and Contact had all been widely successful and allowed astronomy to reach more people who would have otherwise been unexposed to the science. Due to his ability to reach such a wide audience consisting of millions of people, Sagan had been known as a scientist working alongside the people and had been honored with many prestigious awards for his work, such as the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal. Alongside these major accomplishments, he also dealt with space exploration. Sagan had helped to found the Planetary Society, structured around the exploration of space. He had also been a part of the teams that looked at the imaging of other planets and had helped with the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft launches with keeping in mim that extraterrestrial life could find the spacecraft ad learn about humans from them. Throughout his life, his career had taken him to Harvard University as a