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Well, I mean Cassini is getting closer to Titan.
"The Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a 51-minute engine burn that will raise its next closest approach distance to Saturn by nearly 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles). The maneuver was necessary to keep the spacecraft from passing through the rings and to put it on target for its first close encounter with Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 26. " http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/pres...40823-pr-a.cfm while you are there, check out the "wavy clouds" at Saturn's south pole. As it says, the stratosphere at this latitude is almost pure hydrogen and helium. |
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