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The Cassiterides (Greek: Κασσιτερίδες, meaning "Tin Islands", from κασσίτερος, kassíteros "tin") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to a group of islands whose precise location is unknown, but which was believed to be situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe. [1]
Cassini was born in Perinaldo, [2] [3] near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state. [4] [5] He discovered four satellites of Saturn and noted the division of its rings, later named the Cassini Division. Cassini was also the first of his family to begin work on the project of creating a topographic map of France ...
The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic realm (which in turn is part of the Holarctic ). Lying within the temperate region , (north of the equator) the wildlife is not as rich as in the hottest regions, but is nevertheless diverse due to the ...
Cassini has run low on propellant, and will become an artificial meteor at Saturn on Friday morning as it plunges to its death. NASA is now receiving the last photos ever taken by the Cassini ...
As Cassini winds down its 20-year mission to Saturn, the spacecraft will maneuver into a series of weeklong orbits, allowing it to get a closer look at the planet's famous rings as it flies by.
Venice, spread over 118 small islands, is at risk of disappearing into the sea by as early as 2100 due to rising sea levels and the weight of continuous overtourism, with people and seawater ...
This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] This list includes the European continent and its surrounding islands.
Cassini Regio / k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ r iː dʒ i oʊ / (adjective Cassinian / k ə ˈ s ɪ n i ən /) [1] is the enigmatic dark area that covers the leading half of Saturn's moon Iapetus. It is named after Giovanni Cassini , the discoverer of Iapetus; ' Regio ' is a term used in planetary geology for a large area that is strongly differentiated ...