Pop!Tech 2006: Dangerous Ideas
Carolyn Porco, NASA's Cassini Mission
Carolyn Porco made an unscheduled stop by the Pop!Tech stage on Friday to stun this year’s audience in much the same way as she did last year with her incredible stories and images from her post as the Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Her astounding update: Shortly after last year’s Pop!Tech, on Nov. 27, 2006, jets of fine, icy particles streaming from Saturn's moon Enceladus were captured in images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images provide unambiguous visual evidence the moon is geologically active.
Yep, that means, they have reached the Cardinal goal of space explorers of a potential environment for living organisms. And what’s more is that it is, in Carolyn’s words, indisputable evidence that the same has occurred “a staggering number of times†throughout the universe.
The images, including a time sequence showing the plumes, can be found at http://ciclops.org, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.
As if that weren’t enough reason to warrant a surprise visit, she share ephemeral images just a month old that show Saturn in total eclipse of the sun with a tiny, tiny Earth nestled in the fuzzy outer rings. Need to see those gems again? They’re on the CICLOPS homepage at http://ciclops.org
Her astounding update: Shortly after last year’s Pop!Tech, on Nov. 27, 2006, jets of fine, icy particles streaming from Saturn's moon Enceladus were captured in images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images provide unambiguous visual evidence the moon is geologically active.
Yep, that means, they have reached the Cardinal goal of space explorers of a potential environment for living organisms. And what’s more is that it is, in Carolyn’s words, indisputable evidence that the same has occurred “a staggering number of times†throughout the universe.
The images, including a time sequence showing the plumes, can be found at http://ciclops.org, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.
As if that weren’t enough reason to warrant a surprise visit, she share ephemeral images just a month old that show Saturn in total eclipse of the sun with a tiny, tiny Earth nestled in the fuzzy outer rings. Need to see those gems again? They’re on the CICLOPS homepage at http://ciclops.org
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