Best quotes by Carolyn Porco on Solar
Checkout quotes by Carolyn Porco on Solar
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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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‟ 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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‟ Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived, there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system.
- Carolyn Porco
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‟ Voyager found Saturn to be a planet with a complex interior, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. In its rings - a vast, gleaming disk of icy rubble - the mission recorded signs of the same physical mechanisms that were key in configuring the early solar system and similar disks of material around other stars.
- 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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‟ The geysering on Enceladus is the most astonishing phenomenon we have in our solar system.
- Carolyn Porco
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‟ No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of our solar system exists out beyond the orbits of the asteroids. So we could not have claimed to know our own solar system until Voyager had toured the giant planets.
- Carolyn Porco