Carolyn Porco

I have a bias, and I don't deny that. But it's not so much an emotional attachment with objects that we study: it's a point of view based on the evidence. We simply know more about Enceladus. ”

Make education more accessible to women - all women, not just Americans. ”

Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition. ”

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did. ”

Between my participation in Voyager and my role in Cassini, when comes the time, I will die a happy and gratified woman. ”

Cassini was an international undertaking, led by NASA and the European Space Agency and designed to be, in every dimension, a dramatic advance over Voyager. At the size of a school bus, it was bigger than Voyager and outfitted with the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever carried into the outer solar system. ”

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself. ”

It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we've found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn's. ”

The Cassini mission was all about a comprehensive investigation of Saturn and everything in the Saturn system, and it's been a mission that's been done jointly with the Europeans. ”

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on Mars. ”