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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

South Pole

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Eugene Shoemaker

(American geologist and pioneer in planetary science)

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