Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco
Carolyn C. Porcois an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She leads the imaging science team on the Cassini mission currently in orbit around Saturn. She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon, Enceladus...
looking south
We're looking at some kind of focusing. We can't say why it would be at the south pole.
density gravity seen spiral structures
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,