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- Cassini-Huygens Mission status report
Mike Flugennock said:
In article , "Matt J. McCullar" wrote: Thanks for posting the info! I saw a mockup of the Cassini probe last year and it's a BIG probe. The time I'm having following the MER missions had helped me pretty much totally forget the time it was taking for Cassini to get to Saturn. I've been following Cassini much more closely since the MER landings, as orbital insertion date drew closer, but the thing that really drove me nuts was seeing those beautiful full-frame color shots of Saturn that looked like you could reach out and touch it -- and the craft was still something like six months out. I'm absolutely jumping out of my socks at the opportunity to check out Saturn as closely as I've seen Jupiter -- and those Cassini Jupiter flyby fotos had me licking my chops anticipating the close Saturn images -- and thinking of the fotos Huygens will send back from Titan if all goes well has got me almost totally unable to sit still. Better than Jupiter. Cassini's instruments are quite a bit newer than Gallileo's were, and Cassini has a functioning high gain antenna. Some of the stuff that Gallileo was supposed to do but didn't, much, we'll see for the first time with Cassini. Some of the neater aspects of that will be plenty of high-resolution movies of atmospheric changes on Saturn and Titan. Between the extended MER missions and Cassini, I can see I'm going to be spending a lot of time "off-world" this summer. Don't forget the X-Prize, the return of the Genesis Solar Wind samples, and the launches of MESSENGER and Deep Impact (to add to the launches of Hayabusa/Muses-C and Rosetta). |
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