# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-robert-showalter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:03:22.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-robert-showalter"
name: "Mark Robert Showalter"
slug: "mark-robert-showalter"
description: "Mark Robert Showalter is an American senior research scientist at the SETI Institute. He is the discoverer of six moons and three planetary rings. He is the Principal Investigator of NASA's Planetary Data System Rings Node, a co-investigator on the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn, and works closely with the New Horizons mission to Pluto."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MarkRShowalter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.207092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Марк Шоволтер"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μαρκ Σοουόλτερ"
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    title: "Mark R. Showalter"
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    title: "Mark R. Showalter"
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    title: "Mark R. Showalter"
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    title: "Mark R. Showalter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump