April 10th 06, 11:55 PM
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
News Release: 2006-051 April 10, 2006
Cassini-Huygens Team Receives Space Award
The Cassini-Huygens mission team, which has captured
the most detailed views ever of Saturn and its myriad
of moons, was honored with an Aerospace Laurel award
by the editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology
magazine.
Aviation Week presented the award for the successful
landing of the European Space Agency's Huygens probe
on Saturn's moon Titan, and for the science return
and inspiring images from NASA's Cassini orbiter,
which will continue sending back data for many years.
According to the Aviation Week magazine citation,
"Dennis Matson, the project scientist at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, and Jean-Pierre Lebreton, the
European Space Agency's project scientist and mission
manager, have strived since the beginning to create,
protect and operate the Cassini-Huygens mission, and
are good representatives of the larger team that made
this two-decade international project possible." The
award was presented on April 7 in Washington, D.C.
Cassini-Huygens was launched on Oct. 15, 1997.
Cassini arrived at Saturn in July 2004, and embarked
on a science-packed expedition of the ringed planet
and its dozens of moons, including Titan. The Huygens
probe hitched a ride on Cassini during the journey
covering 3.5 billion kilometers (2.2 billion miles).
The probe descended through Titan's dense, murky
atmosphere to reveal a whole new world with
Earth-like processes. Cassini recently made a
remarkable discovery at another moon of Saturn,
snowy Enceladus, discovering gigantic geysers of ice
particles spewing into space from a warm interior.
The mission represents the best technical efforts of
260 scientists from the United States and 17 European
nations. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative
project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the
Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of Caltech,
manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate. The Cassini orbiter was designed,
developed and assembled at JPL.
For images and more information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .
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JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
News Release: 2006-051 April 10, 2006
Cassini-Huygens Team Receives Space Award
The Cassini-Huygens mission team, which has captured
the most detailed views ever of Saturn and its myriad
of moons, was honored with an Aerospace Laurel award
by the editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology
magazine.
Aviation Week presented the award for the successful
landing of the European Space Agency's Huygens probe
on Saturn's moon Titan, and for the science return
and inspiring images from NASA's Cassini orbiter,
which will continue sending back data for many years.
According to the Aviation Week magazine citation,
"Dennis Matson, the project scientist at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, and Jean-Pierre Lebreton, the
European Space Agency's project scientist and mission
manager, have strived since the beginning to create,
protect and operate the Cassini-Huygens mission, and
are good representatives of the larger team that made
this two-decade international project possible." The
award was presented on April 7 in Washington, D.C.
Cassini-Huygens was launched on Oct. 15, 1997.
Cassini arrived at Saturn in July 2004, and embarked
on a science-packed expedition of the ringed planet
and its dozens of moons, including Titan. The Huygens
probe hitched a ride on Cassini during the journey
covering 3.5 billion kilometers (2.2 billion miles).
The probe descended through Titan's dense, murky
atmosphere to reveal a whole new world with
Earth-like processes. Cassini recently made a
remarkable discovery at another moon of Saturn,
snowy Enceladus, discovering gigantic geysers of ice
particles spewing into space from a warm interior.
The mission represents the best technical efforts of
260 scientists from the United States and 17 European
nations. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative
project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the
Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of Caltech,
manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate. The Cassini orbiter was designed,
developed and assembled at JPL.
For images and more information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .
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