Dr. Carolyn Porco is an imaging scientist famous for working on the Voyager and Cassini missions to Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. She is also in charge of the upcoming New Horizons imaging mission to Pluto and Kuiper Belt.

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Dr. Carolyn Porco is an imaging scientist famous for working on the Voyager and Cassini missions to Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. She is also in charge of the upcoming New Horizons imaging mission to Pluto and Kuiper Belt.