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Cassini Captures Stunning View Of Saturn
February 29, 2004 — Four months before its scheduled arrival at Saturn, the Cassini- Huygens spacecraft sent its best color postcard back to Earth of the ringed world. The spacecraft is expected to send weekly ... > full story -
Titan Is Ideal Lab For Oceanography, Meteorology
February 18, 2004 — After a 7-year interplanetary voyage, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will reach Saturn this July and begin what promises to be one of the most exciting missions in planetary exploration ... > full story -
Getting Closer To The Lord Of The Rings
January 19, 2004 — This time next year, ESA’s Huygens spaceprobe will be descending through the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a body in the outer Solar ... > full story -
Recycling Of Orbiting Debris May Extend Lifetimes Of Planets' Rings
December 9, 2003 — Although rings around planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are relatively short-lived, new evidence implies that the recycling of orbiting debris can lengthen the lifetime of such rings, ... > full story -
Cassini Captures Jupiter In Close-Up Portrait
November 14, 2003 — Jupiter, our solar system's most massive planet, has been captured in the most detailed global color view ever seen, courtesy of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini acquired the view during ... > full story -
Let Gravity Assist You...
October 23, 2003 — Imagine if every time you drove by a city, your car mysteriously picked up speed or slowed down. Substitute a spacecraft and a planet for the car and the city, and this is called a 'gravity ... > full story -
First Extrasolar Planets, Now Extrasolar Moons
October 10, 2003 — The European Space Agency is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other ... > full story -
Radar Finds Evidence For Hydrocarbon Lakes On Saturn's Moon Titan
October 3, 2003 — The smog-shrouded atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has been parted by Earth-based radar to reveal the first evidence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on its surface. The observations are ... > full story -
Saturn-Bound Spacecraft Tests Einstein's Theory
October 3, 2003 — An experiment by Italian scientists using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn, confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity with a precision that is 50 times ... > full story -
How To Drop In On Titan: Landing On Saturn's Moon Will Be Very Tricky For Europe's Huygens Probe
August 29, 2003 — You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System. You must have tested your spacecraft to its limits to be sure it will ... > full story
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