Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco says, "I'm going to take you on a journey." And does she ever. Showing breathtaking images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, she focuses on Saturn's intriguing largest moon, Titan,with deserts, mudflats and puzzling lakes, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.
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Carolyn Porco: Fly me to the moons of Saturn
Category: Cosmos
Posted on: January 6, 2008 10:00 AM, by Greg Laden
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I can never watch this without getting tears in my eyes.
Posted by: Prazzie | January 6, 2008 3:02 PM
You're not the only one, Prazzie.
Thank you, Greg, and
thank you, Carolyn and team.
Posted by: BobbyEarle | January 6, 2008 6:44 PM
Anybody got a url for that last image? The one they did _not_, for some unfathomable reason, show properly? I thought I had already seen the Earth image, but not with the brilliance of what was hinted at there.
Thanks to everyone involved, especially Carolyn and team. This was such an important event for me too, so much that when we unexpectedly acquired a rescue cat on the day of the launch I just had to name him Cassini.
Posted by: GrayGaffer | January 7, 2008 1:07 AM