I think there is no chance that the blue ring is caused by geyser activity. We don't know what the composition of the particles is.

This model can be transferred directly to what we now see in Uranus, although we still need to understand the details of the process.

When dust is smaller than or comparable to the wavelength of light, the reflected color is dominated by particle size effects rather than the intrinsic color of the material.

We went out in October to image both rings and we simply couldn't see the outer one. We should have easily seen it if it was a normal ring. The interesting part was that the outer ring was the one that was the brighter one in the Hubble images.

It's funny that this research got started by something we didn't see.

I'm very excited and happy. New England is a great team, and I'm just happy to have the chance to go and try to play there. I know it's going to be a challenge, but I'm ready for it.