Porco, who heads the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (
CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, makes an elegant case for celebrating the story of "our cosmic circumstances"--the formation of the universe and how we fit into it--as not only discovered truth, but as the "greatest story ever told." The questions this saga has already answered, and those it seeks to elucidate through scientific exploration, are the questions long ago answered by religion: Who are we?
PORCO, PH.D., IS THE LEADER of the Cassini Imaging Science team and the director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (
CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.