Carolyn Porco

Leader of the Cassini imaging team

Carolyn Porco is a planetary scientist and astronomer who served as the project scientist for the Cassini mission. She is known for her work on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons. Porco has a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, and has published numerous papers on planetary science and astronomy. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science an...