Carolyn Porco Quotes

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear. - Carolyn Porco

Once you have liquid water, you have the potential for living organisms. - Carolyn Porco

Once the water comes out it freezes, and that produces copious amounts of ice particles. - Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was. - Carolyn Porco

It's not clear that Cassini has the means to determine if the ice crystals themselves contain microbes. It may require a device with much greater compositional precision than we have, so that may have to be left for a future mission. - Carolyn Porco

It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, ... Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together. - Carolyn Porco

It was beyond our wildest dreams. - Carolyn Porco

It felt like the old days, when we first saw the spokes. They are one weird phenomena and it was a joy to see them again...especially since we hadn't seen them yet and were eager to know why. - Carolyn Porco

I'll never forget when I realized there was this connection -- it was tremendous to know something that no one else on the planet knew. - Carolyn Porco

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