Carolyn Porco Quotes


While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it. - Carolyn Porco


We've been on the lookout for them since February, 2004. Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. - Carolyn Porco


We're looking at some kind of focusing. We can't say why it would be at the south pole. - Carolyn Porco


Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low. So, I was surprised to see them. But once they showed up, I realized we should have expected them there all along. - Carolyn Porco


We think we've got geysers. - Carolyn Porco


We realize that this is a radical conclusion. If we're right, we think we are looking at another environment in the solar system where we have liquid water and the potential for living organisms. - Carolyn Porco


We realize that this is a radical conclusion -- that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold. - Carolyn Porco


We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water. - Carolyn Porco


We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things. - Carolyn Porco


We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today. - Carolyn Porco


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