Saturn is accompanied by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The Cassini mission was all about a comprehensive investigation of Saturn and everything in the Saturn system, and it's been a mission… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Titan has no liquid water on its surface, and any liquid water beneath its surface is inaccessible to us, as far as… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Cassini was an international undertaking, led by NASA and the European Space Agency and designed to be, in every dimension, a dramatic… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Voyager found Saturn to be a planet with a complex interior, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. In its rings - a vast, gleaming disk… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The Saturn system is a rich planetary system. It offers mystery, scientific insight, and obviously splendour beyond compare, and the investigation of… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived, there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Saturn itself is a giant planet, and there's much to be gained by investigating its meteorology and studying its magnetic field. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Every type of ring behavior we have seen around Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune can be found in orbit around Saturn. And Saturn's… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
As far as Europa goes, Europa very likely has an ocean under its surface. In that regard, Europa and Enceladus are on… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Voyager's passage through Saturn's inner system exposed diverse moons with dynamic forces at work. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, whose surface remained invisible… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
As far as Europa goes, Europa very likely has an ocean under its surface. In that regard, Europa and Enceladus are on equal par.… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Saturn is accompanied by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to as big… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Titan is the one place in our solar system whose geographical and atmospheric diversity and complexity are rivaled only by the Earth's. It's very… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it - you know, even if it's just a little discovery that… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect,… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
As far as I'm concerned, Enceladus has become the go-to place in our solar system for issues bearing on extraterrestrial life. It's a great… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets, — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn.… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and our relation… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share
