104 Quotes by Carolyn Porco

We realize that this is a radical conclusion. If we're right, we think we are looking at another environment in the solar system where we have liquid water and the potential for living organisms.

Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low. So, I was surprised to see them. But once they showed up, I realized we should have expected them there all along.

We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water.

We've been on the lookout for them since February, 2004. Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Enceladus is surprisingly warm, internally fractured and active ...

After what we've discovered with Cassini, if we don't get an extended mission, then there's no hope for anybody.

So, water closer to the surface and more time spent conducting scientific investigations....sounds like a winner to me.

So we think we have a Yellowstone-type liquid geyser tens of meters deep. We're fairly confident because we have exhausted all the other models.

Once you have liquid water, you have the potential for living organisms.