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During planning for its extended missions, various future plans for Cassini were evaluated on the basis of scientific value, cost, and time. [3] [7] Some of the options examined included collision with Saturn atmosphere, an icy satellite, or rings; another was departure from Saturn orbit to Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, or a centaur.
Cassini–Huygens (/ k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
View of Saturn from Cassini, taken in March 2004, shortly before the spacecraft's orbital insertion in July 2004. This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA, the European Space Agency ("ESA"), and the Italian Space Agency ("ASI") to send a probe to study the Saturnian system, including ...
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 ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet's atmosphere.
The score to Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey was composed by Shawn K. Clement, [18] who recorded his score with an 80-piece ensemble of the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra at the Skywalker Scoring Stage north of San Francisco. Clement integrated sounds and space noise provided by NASA into the music, and served as Post Audio Producer on the ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Surveyor program (NASA) (10 P) V. Viking program (4 P) Voyager program (1 C, 26 P, 1 F) Pages in category "NASA space ...
1990/1 Hubble Space Telescope image; 2006: observed with a 12" telescope by amateurs near Paris. Volunteers Help NASA Track Return of the Dragon Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine; Kidger, Mark (1992). "The 1990 Great White Spot of Saturn". In Patrick, Moore (ed.). The 1993 Yearbook of Astronomy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 176 ...