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Giovanni Domenico Cassini was also the first of his family to begin work on the project of creating a topographic map of France. In addition, Cassini also created the first scientific map of the moon. [6] The Cassini space probe, launched in 1997, was named after him and became the fourth to visit Saturn and the first to orbit it.
Jean-Dominique Cassini can refer to: Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), known in France as Jean-Dominique Cassini Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748–1845), great-grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini (also known as Cassini IV)
Ven (older Swedish spelling Hven), is a Swedish island in the Öresund strait laying between Skåne, Sweden and Zealand, Denmark. A part of Landskrona Municipality, Skåne County, the island has an area of 7.5 km 2 (2.9 sq mi) and 371 inhabitants as of 2020. During the 1930s, the population was at its peak, with approximately 1,300 inhabitants.
The name means man island; by contrast with the parallel island to the east, Kunoy, the name of which means woman island. [1] The northernmost part and scenery of Kalsoy was used as stand-in for the Kuril Islands in eastern Russia while filming for the 25th James Bond movie No Time to Die. In the film, which was released in 2021, the villain's ...
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 ...
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Cassini's laws on the motion of the Moon; Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn; Cassini–Huygens, the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the Cassini orbiter was a part; Cassini (Martian crater) Cassini (lunar crater) 24101 Cassini, an asteroid; 24102 Jacquescassini, another asteroid
Valdemar's Castle (Danish: Valdemars Slot) is a manor house situated on the island of Tåsinge near Svendborg in southern Denmark. [1] History