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Carolyn Porco

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    Carolyn Porco

    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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    Carolyn Porco

    Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

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    Carolyn Porco

    For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

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    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.

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    Carolyn Porco

    Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

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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 and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.

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    Carolyn Porco

    Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

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    Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

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    Carolyn Porco

    The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

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    There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

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    Carolyn Porco

    The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

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    We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes.

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    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.

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    Carolyn Porco

    We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

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    Carolyn Porco

    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.

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    Carolyn Porco

    These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space.