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
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
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored… — 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
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. — 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
The questions that we scientist have about Saturn's rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when… — 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
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
It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to… — 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
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
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
For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal… — 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
It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we've found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
