Scientist at Work: Carolyn Porco

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An Odyssey From the Bronx to Saturn’s Rings
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: September 21, 2009

Shadows lengthened to stretch thousands of miles across the planet’s famous rings this summer as they slowly tilted edge-on to the Sun, which they do every 15 years, casting into sharp relief every bump and wiggle and warp in the buttery and wafer-thin bands that are the solar system’s most popular scenic attraction. More

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buttery?