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Cassini Mission to Saturn, and Carolyn Porco
• Presentation to Atheist Friends in Wonderment
• June 21, 2016
• By Joyce Arthur
• Based on presentation given by Carolyn Porco, NASA scientist: • INR5 - “Imagine No Religion 5” conference, June 5-7, 2015, Vancouver
• “The Cassini Mission to Saturn”
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INR5 SpeakerLineup • Richard Dawkins – evolutionary biologist, author, public atheist (UK)
• Lawrence Krauss – theoretical physicist and cosmologist (Arizona)
• Jerry Coyne – professor of biology, author (Chicago)
• Carolyn Porco – planetary scientist (JPL, California)
• Maryam Namazie – Iranian-born human rights activist and secularist (U.S.)
• Harriet Hall – medical doctor, critic of alternative medicine (Puyallup, Washington)
• Peter Boghossian – philosopher, logician (Portland)
• Robert Price – theologian, Biblical critic, author (North Carolina)
• Faisal Saeed al Mutar – Iraqi born writer, public speaker, human rights activist (Washington DC)
• Ian Mitchell – emergency room doctor, substance abuse specialist (Kamloops)
• Vyckie Garrison – former Quiverfull adherent, author (Nebraska)
• Christopher Dicarlo – philosopher, atheist (Guelph)
• Seth Andrews – host of “The Thinking Atheist” (Oklahoma) - “Unholy Trinity”
• Matt Dillahunty – host of “The Atheist Experience” (Austin, Texas) - “Unholy Trinity”
• Aron Ra – atheist vlogger and activist (Texas) - “Unholy Trinity”3
Saturn and the Cassini Mission
Head of Imaging Team: Carolyn Porco
At Palomar Observatory as a graduate student Carolyn Porco in 2013
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View from Huygens Probe during descent to Titan
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River Channel on Titan
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Enceladus
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“I invite you to imagine the day when we might journey to the Saturniansystem and visit the Enceladus Interplanetary Geyser Park –just because we can.”
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Saturn’s North Pole
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South Pole
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Eugene Shoemaker
(American geologist and pioneer in planetary science)
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