We are at this very moment looking to see what the best times are for retargeting. Hopefully, we haven't seen the last of them. |
We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes. |
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today, |
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today. |
We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things, |
We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water. |
We have the smoking gun. |
We realize that this is a radical conclusion -- that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold. |
We realize that this is a radical conclusion. If we're right, we think we are looking at another environment in the solar system where we have liquid water and the potential for living organisms. |
We think we've got geysers. |
We're looking at some kind of focusing. We can't say why it would be at the south pole. |
We've been on the lookout for them since February, 2004. Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. |
Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low. So, I was surprised to see them. But once they showed up, I realized we should have expected them there all along. |
While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it. |