We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

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.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.