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Carolyn PorcoguestexpertiseUnrated

Carolyn Porco supports the decision to end the Cassini mission by crashing it into Saturn to prevent potential biological contamination of moons like Enceladus.

“we didn't want it to accidentally slam into a moon that we might want to investigate in the future for the possibility of life because it could be microbes stowaway microbes on Cassini so we plunked it down into Saturn”

StarTalk · Mar 2020 · 3 episodes · 304K views on this topic

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