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Carolyn Porco
Carolyn Porco
American Scientist
Born: Mar 6, 1953
About Life Me People Solar You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. Carolyn Porco
Photographic Alluring Target Saturn
As far as I'm concerned, Enceladus has become the go-to place in our solar system for issues bearing on extraterrestrial life. It's a great place to examine extraterrestrial organic chemistry that is water-based and, therefore, like biotic chemistry on Earth. Carolyn Porco
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I'm used to fighting and arguing with males. Carolyn Porco
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As far as Europa goes, Europa very likely has an ocean under its surface. In that regard, Europa and Enceladus are on equal par. But on Europa, the ocean is at least several kilometers under the surface, and the moon is bathed in an intense radiation field. Carolyn Porco
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I know that I derive the same kind of spiritual fulfillment from what I do, being a planetary scientist, seeing our exploration of the solar system come to fruition. I get such a spiritual high from it that I don't even see the need for religion. Carolyn Porco
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I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy. Carolyn Porco
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I got into astronomy through an interest in religion. Carolyn Porco
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I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights from inwards to outwards, and I started becoming interested in the makeup of the universe, and I started reading about astronomy, planets, and galaxies. Carolyn Porco
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The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses. Carolyn Porco
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The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn. Carolyn Porco
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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. Carolyn Porco
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As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself. Carolyn Porco
Broader System Promise Reach Scientific Greatest Answering Questions Itself Than Holds Far Planetary Saturn
My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place. Carolyn Porco
Spiritual Astronomy Entry Place Whole Started
Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason. Carolyn Porco
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We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers. Carolyn Porco
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The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not. Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were streams and drainage channels, here was incontrovertible evidence that at some point in Titan's history - and perhaps even now - there were flowing liquid hydrocarbons on the surface. Carolyn Porco
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The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and our relation to it, was 'Intelligent Life in the Universe' by I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan. I recall an enchanting all-nighter completing a college homework assignment to read the first chapter. Carolyn Porco
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'Carl Sagan: A Life,' though a riveting tale, tells as much about the all-too-human feelings of jealousy and resentment as it does about the individual who inspired them. Carolyn Porco
Life Jealousy Feelings Though Tells About Individual Inspired Tale Does Them Much Who Resentment
Even if the ocean on Enceladus starts out being as microbially poor as the pelagic ocean on Earth, which is the worst case, we still have a chance of seeing lots of organisms in the plumes. Carolyn Porco
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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. Carolyn Porco
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Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end. Carolyn Porco
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There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying. Carolyn Porco
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I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies. Carolyn Porco
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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. Carolyn Porco
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I was drawn to astronomy by a teenage existential quest. Around 13, I was deep into wondering about the meaning of life and what I was doing here. I turned to religion, but that did nothing for me. I got to wondering where was here. So, I began studying astronomy and became enthralled by what I learned. Carolyn Porco
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It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something. Carolyn Porco
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