OpinionFebruary 13, 2020
How the Celebrated “Pale Blue Dot” Image Came to Be
Voyager 1’s poignant photograph of the distant Earth as the spacecraft sped toward interstellar space happened just 30 years ago
Stories by Carolyn Porco
Carolyn Porco is a planetary scientist and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. She was an imaging scientist on the Voyager mission to the outer planets and the leader of the imaging team on the now-completed Cassini mission at Saturn. She is a member of Scientific American's board of advisers.
Space & PhysicsOctober 1, 2017
Cassini at Saturn: A Retrospective
A historic exploration of the ringed planet, unprecedented in magnitude and spectacle, comes to an end
Space & PhysicsDecember 1, 2008
Enceladus: Secrets of Saturn's Strangest Moon
Wrinkled landscapes and spouting jets on Saturn's sixth-largest moon hint at underground waters