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The Saturn System Through The Eyes Of Cassini is printed in fullcolor on 70pound paperThe CassiniHuygens mission has revolutionized our knowledge of the Saturn system and revealed surprising places in the solar system where life could potentially gain a footholdbodies we call ocean worlds Since its arrival in 2004 CassiniHuygens has been nothing short of a discovery machine captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity Cassini taught us that Saturn is a far cry from a tranquil lone planet with delicate rings Now we know more about Saturns chaotic active and powerful rings and the storms that rage beneath Images and data from Saturns moons Titan and Enceladus hint at the possibility of life never before suspected The rings of Saturn its moons and the planet itself offer irresistible and inexhaustible subjects for intense study As the Cassini mission comes to a dramatic end with a fateful plunge into Saturn on Sept 15 2017 scientists are already dreaming of going back for further study. Saturn Bio/Facts. Diameter: . 116,464 km. Relative Mass (Earth = 1): . 95.2. Density (kg/m. 3. ): . 700. Distance from Sun (AU): . 9.58. Length of Day: . 10.7 hours. Length of Year: . 10,747. days. Mean . Tethys, Rhea,. & Iapetus. Joel Schwartz. Northwestern Physics & Astronomy. May . 13. th. , 2013. Voyager 1 Image. Saturn. Nov 1980. LPI. 3 May 2013.. Moons of Solar System. NASA SSE. 3 May 2013.. RINGS. Beatriz Frisón. Máster en Astrofísica. OBSERVATIONS. 1610- Galileo: . satellites. ?. 1655 – Christian . Hygens. : . rigid. . matter. disk. 1675– . Cassini. : . Cassini. . division. XVIII- Laplace: .  . Michael P Wilkin. 1. , Katie E Rathmell. 1. , Jo A Goodman. 1. , Charles Seaton. 2. , Sarah Riseman. 2. , Paul J. Turner. 2. ,. Albert A Little. 3. , Joe Needoba. 2. , . António. M. Baptista. 2. Technology Report. Nicole Iwaki. ITMG 100 05. What is the Cassini Spacecraft?. O. ngoing project by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Launch date on October 15th, 1997. It’s mission is to conduct detailed studies of Saturn, its rings, icy satellites, magnetosphere and Titan.. Scott Coughlin. Brian . Lach. Holden Martin . Outline. 1. Background. 2. Applications for Life. Geological Structure. Tiger Stripes. Chemicals . Found. 3. Previous Flyby Missions. Voyager 1 and 2. Cassini. Chaz . Isaacks. Saturn Discovery . Saturn improved and changed a lot when the advent of space light that we really began to gain a greater understanding of this enigmatic world.. Saturn is readily visible to the naked eye and has been known for millennia as slowest-moving “wandering star”. . W. S. Kurth. 1. , D. A. Gurnett. 1. , T. F. Averkamp. 1. , R. Bostrom. 2. , P. Canu. 3. , B. Cecconi. 4. , N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin. 3. , W. M. Farrell. 5. , G. Fischer. 6. , P. Galopeau. The Saturn System Through The Eyes Of Cassini is printed in full-color on 70-pound paper.The Cassini-Huygens mission has revolutionized our knowledge of the Saturn system and revealed surprising places in the solar system where life could potentially gain a foothold--bodies we call ocean worlds. Since its arrival in 2004, Cassini-Huygens has been nothing short of a discovery machine, captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. Cassini taught us that Saturn is a far cry from a tranquil lone planet with delicate rings. Now, we know more about Saturn\'s chaotic, active, and powerful rings, and the storms that rage beneath. Images and data from Saturn\'s moons Titan and Enceladus hint at the possibility of life never before suspected. The rings of Saturn, its moons, and the planet itself offer irresistible and inexhaustible subjects for intense study. As the Cassini mission comes to a dramatic end with a fateful plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017, scientists are already dreaming of going back for further study. The descent of the Huygens probe to the frozen surface of Saturn\'s moon, Titan, in 2005, marks a pinnacle achievement in space exploration - the most distant planetary landing ever made or presently foreseen. The Huygens probe\'s seven-year voyage through space (past Venus, Earth and Jupiter) attached to the Cassini orbiter, its arrival at Saturn and three-week dormant coast to Saturn\'s moon, Titan, culminated in Huygens\' hypersonic entry into Titan\'s atmosphere, 2.5-hour parachute descent, and continued operation for 72 minutes on the surface transmitting date back to Earth via the Cassini orbiter. Saturn has 62 confirmed orbiting moons, but Titan (which is larger than the planet Mercury) was chosen as a has two major components of Earth\'s atmosphere - nitrogen and oxygen - but the oxygen is was thought to be frozen as water ice within the body of the moon. If Titan received more sunlight, its atmosphere might well resemble that of a primitive Earth. The hope is that study of the data gathered about Titan will help us to understand how the Earth evolved, and possibly what led to the evolution of life. Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality the engineering and development required to build the spacecraft its 2.2-billion milejourney from Earth to the Ringed Planet and the amazing discoveriesfrom the mission.The author traces how the visions of a few brilliant scientists matured, gained popularity and eventually became a reality.Innovative technical leaps were necessary to assemble such a multifaceted spacecraft and reliably operate it while it orbited a planet so far from our own. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft design evolved from other deep space efforts, most notably the Galileo mission to Jupiter, enabling the voluminous, paradigm-shifting scientific data collected by the spacecraft.Some of these discoveries are absolute gems. A small satellite that scientists once thought of as a dead piece of rock turned out to contain a warm underground sea that could conceivably harbor life. And we now know that hiding under the mist of Saturn s largest moon, Titan, is a world with lakes, fluvial channels, and dunes hauntingly reminiscent of those on our own planet, except that on Titan, it s not water that fills those lakes but hydrocarbons. These and other breakthroughs illustrate why the Cassini-Huygens mission will be remembered as one of greatest voyages ofdiscovery ever made. Saturn is back in the news! The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft, a joint venture by NASA and the European Space Agency, is on its way to Saturn, where it will arrive in July 2004. During 2005 it will explore beneath the clouds of Titan, Saturn\'s largest moon and potential home for extraterrestrial life. Written by an established space historian and experienced author, Mission To Saturn - Cassini and the Huygens Probe is an up-to-date and timely review of our knowledge of Saturn and its enigmatic moon, Titan, on which the Huygens probe will land to search for prebiotic chemistry or even life. It explains how the mission was planned, how it will operate and, as the spacecraft nears its target, puts into context the discoveries that are sure to follow from this once-in-a-lifetime mission. Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality the engineering and development required to build the spacecraft its 2.2-billion milejourney from Earth to the Ringed Planet and the amazing discoveriesfrom the mission.The author traces how the visions of a few brilliant scientists matured, gained popularity and eventually became a reality.Innovative technical leaps were necessary to assemble such a multifaceted spacecraft and reliably operate it while it orbited a planet so far from our own. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft design evolved from other deep space efforts, most notably the Galileo mission to Jupiter, enabling the voluminous, paradigm-shifting scientific data collected by the spacecraft.Some of these discoveries are absolute gems. A small satellite that scientists once thought of as a dead piece of rock turned out to contain a warm underground sea that could conceivably harbor life. And we now know that hiding under the mist of Saturn s largest moon, Titan, is a world with lakes, fluvial channels, and dunes hauntingly reminiscent of those on our own planet, except that on Titan, it s not water that fills those lakes but hydrocarbons. These and other breakthroughs illustrate why the Cassini-Huygens mission will be remembered as one of greatest voyages ofdiscovery ever made. Enceladus. with blue imaged tiger stripes. This image was taken during Cassini's close flyby of . Enceladus. on July 14, 2005. . Blue Images are newest . crystaline. ice. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-083005.html.