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Updated on January 07, 2026

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Emily Lakdawalla Biography

Emily Lakdawalla is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on February 8, 1975 in United States. Emily Stewart Lakdawalla (born February 8th 1975) is an American geoscientist and senior editor of The Planetary Society, contributing as a science writer and blogger. She also has worked as a teacher as well for environmental consultants. She has also conducted research on geology Mars topography and also in science communications and educational. Lakdawalla is a pro-science advocate on a variety of social media platforms, and is interacting with enthusiasts and professionals in the field through Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. She has been featured on media outlets such as NPR, BBC and BBC America.

In 1997, motivated by a space-based simulation project that used images of the Galileo mission, which was a spacecraft that orbited two moons of Jupiter, Io as well as Europa, Lakdawalla decided to conduct independent research on structural geology.

In 2011, Lakdawalla received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for her reporting on the Phoebe ring of Saturn.

“Those geysers are salty – it’s a salt water ocean, so we basically have a world that is conveniently venting its ocean out into space. You don’t even have to land – you can just fly right through that plume and check to see what kinds of cool chemistry is happening there. So yeah, I think Enceladus would be a really cool place to explore for life.”

in 1996 Lakdawalla earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts degree in geology from Amherst College. In 2000, she was awarded the Master of Science diploma in planetology in the field of planetary geology from Brown University.

NameEmily Lakdawalla
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Birth Year1975
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Starting in September 2013, Lakdawalla has penned the monthly “In the Press” column for Nature Geoscience.

Emily Lakdawalla Net Worth

Emily Lakdawalla is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emily Lakdawalla's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lakdawalla is a resident of Los Angeles with her husband the economist Darius Lakdawalla. They first met while going to Amherst together as students in the early 1990s. They have two daughters.

After she completed the course at Amherst Lakdawalla taught for two years, beginning in 1996 until 1998 in teaching sixth and fifth year science classes at Lake Forest Country Day School in Lake Forest, Illinois.

In 2001, Lakdawalla joined The Planetary Society as a deputy project manager of the Society’s Red Rover Goes to Mars project, an educational and public outreach program on the Mars Exploration Rover mission funded by The Lego Group. In 2002, in support of training exercises for Mars rover operations, she administered an international competition, which selected secondary school students for training and travel to Pasadena, California for participation in these exercises. In early 2005, this competition and selection was performed again for actual Mars Exploration Rover mission operations.

Net Worth$5 Million
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Asteroid 274860 Emilylakdawalla, discovered by German astronomers Matthias Busch and Rainer Kresken at the ESA Optical Ground Station in 2009, was named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on July 12, 2014 (M.P.C. 89086 ).

Lakdawalla is a contributing editor to Sky & Telescope magazine, for which she has written articles about Mars, the Moon, outer planets, spacecraft imaging, and Kuiper belt objects. She has written a book about the design and engineering of the Curiosity rover mission, published in 2018, and is working on a second book, about the scientific discoveries of Curiosity, to be published in 2019.

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In a December 2013 interview with Universe Today, Lakdawalla discussed candidate locations for life in the Solar System based on geological activity and presence of water. In addition to Europa, Lakdawalla cited Enceladus (a moon of Saturn), due to its active salty geysers:

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During a research operation on Devon Island (located in the Canadian high Arctic), which was funded by The Planetary Society, where a team worked to test the location as a potential analogue for unmanned aerial vehicles to be deployed on Mars, Lakdawalla began writing for the Society’s online publications. For several years, she wrote web news articles, as well as making contributions to the society’s print publications, including The Planetary Report, where she assumed chief editorial responsibilities in September 2018.

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Emily Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Emily Lakdawalla celebrates birthday on February 8 of every year.

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