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Mission to Saturn:
International effort to explore Saturn, Titan
NASA, the European Space Agancy and Italy's space agancy teamed up to produce the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. The US$3 billion project, which launched Oct. 15, 1997, should enter Saturn's orbit July 1. Cassini will spend four years orbiting the gaseous giant to learn more about the planet's rings, which as made up of ice and rocks. Clues gathered during the robotic Saturn mission could shed light on the origins of the solar system, NASA built the Cassini craft, which is carrying the ESA-built Huygens probe.
Titans probe:
Titan, the largest of Saturn's 18 moons, is an important mission target. On Dec. 25, Cassini will release the Huygens probe. By Jan. 14, the probe should hit the moon's atmosphere at 13,400 mph. During its three-hour parachute journey to the surface, it will measure wind speed, analyze the atmosphere and take photographs. Titan's atmosphere is believed to be similar to a primordial Terra.
Reference:
http://www.nasa.gov
International effort to explore Saturn, Titan
NASA, the European Space Agancy and Italy's space agancy teamed up to produce the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. The US$3 billion project, which launched Oct. 15, 1997, should enter Saturn's orbit July 1. Cassini will spend four years orbiting the gaseous giant to learn more about the planet's rings, which as made up of ice and rocks. Clues gathered during the robotic Saturn mission could shed light on the origins of the solar system, NASA built the Cassini craft, which is carrying the ESA-built Huygens probe.
Titans probe:
Titan, the largest of Saturn's 18 moons, is an important mission target. On Dec. 25, Cassini will release the Huygens probe. By Jan. 14, the probe should hit the moon's atmosphere at 13,400 mph. During its three-hour parachute journey to the surface, it will measure wind speed, analyze the atmosphere and take photographs. Titan's atmosphere is believed to be similar to a primordial Terra.
Reference:
http://www.nasa.gov