Carolyn Porco Quotes
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
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.