Carolyn Porco Quotes
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. 
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Felt | Days | Spokes | Weird | Phenomena |
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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
[Of intense interest will be a Cassini determination of the periodicity in the appearance of spokes. This will require monitoring spoke activity from a variety of geometries over several years.] Cassini has found that the SKR period has changed since Voyager, which though hard to believe, may mean that the rotation of Saturn's interior has changed, ... That would be a finding of enormous consequence, so, we'll be looking very closely to see if the frequency of spoke activity has changed too.
- Carolyn Porco