Voyager Quotes by Carolyn Porco

9 Voyager quotes by Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco shares nine succinct observations about the voyager, blending scientific curiosity with a poetic sense of space travel.

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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

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Between my participation in Voyager and my role in Cassini, when comes the time, I will die a happy and gratified woman.

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Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings…

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Voyager found Saturn to be a planet with a complex interior, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. In its rings - a vast, gleaming disk…

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Cassini was an international undertaking, led by NASA and the European Space Agency and designed to be, in every dimension, a dramatic…

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No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of…

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When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000…

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While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team…

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Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated…

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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

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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…

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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

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For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn.…

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My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

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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…

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There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.

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The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and our relation…

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Saturn is such an alluring photographic target.

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