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Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Imaging Science Team on the Cassini mission presently orbiting Saturn, and a lead imaging scientist on the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission to be launched in early 2006. She is a veteran imaging scientist of the Voyager mission to the outer solar system in the 1980's.
Carolyn is the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where Cassini images are collected, processed and released to the public, and an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona. She is also the CEO of Diamond Sky Productions, a small company devoted to the scientific, as well as artful, use of planetary images and computer graphics for the presentation of science to the public.
Description: original painting is acrylic with oil pastel, marker and collage elements on 30" x 40" museum board, created in real-time during the presentation at Pop!Tech 2005.
