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Angioletta Coradini was a pioneering Italian planetary scientist whose work reshaped our understanding of the Solar System. Her primary research focused on the composition and evolution of small bodies—asteroids, comets, and planetary satellites—using infrared spectroscopy. She was a key figure in defining Europe’s strategic vision for space exploration, notably as lead author of the influential 2009 ESSC-ESF Position Paper (15 citations), which laid the scientific groundwork for ESA’s Aurora Programme. Coradini also made significant contributions to fundamental physics, co-authoring studies on testing general relativity via Lunar Laser Ranging (12 citations) and proposing the MAGIA lunar orbiter for precision metrology (10 citations). Her leadership was instrumental in major missions: she served as Principal Investigator for the VIRTIS spectrometer on Rosetta and Venus Express, and for the JIRAM instrument on Juno. With over 300 publications and a career spanning decades at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Coradini’s legacy endures in the data returned from comets, Venus, and Jupiter, inspiring a generation of planetary scientists to explore the frontiers of our cosmic neighborhood.