Ep. 5 - Dr. Carolyn Porco

Dr. Carolyn Porco is a planetary scientist who is renowned for her imaging work on NASA's Voyager mission to Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s, and for her leadership of the Imaging Science team on the 27-year-long Cassini mission to Saturn. In fact, Neil deGrasse Tyson calls her "Madame Saturn". She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, such as the American Astronomical Society's Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in the Communication of Science to the Public and the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, The California Institute of Technology.  In 2012, she was named one of TIME magazine's 25 most influential people in space. She is also a life-long and die-hard fan of The Beatles. 

 

Follow Carolyn on Twitter: @CarolynPorco

 

Carolyn's Captain's Log from John's 60th birthday: http://ciclops.org/index/60/Captain's_Logs

 

Carolyn's Captain's Log from Paul's 64th birthday: http://ciclops.org/index/2078/Captain's_Logs and movie for Paul: http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=24

 

For more Captain's Logs and epic images of Saturn, you can check out her CICLOPS website here: ciclops.org

 

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