# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carolyn-porco
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:07:12.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carolyn-porco"
name: "Carolyn Porco"
slug: "carolyn-porco"
description: "Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn. She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon, Enceladus."
tagline: "American planetary scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carolyn-porco-2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1953-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 215
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump