Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled. The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun, the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its ...
The published discovery was retracted a few hours later and republished the next day under the correct name of S/2007 S 5. It was discovered by the Cassini Imaging Team [1] in images taken on 30 May 2007. [2] Once the discovery was made, a search of older Cassini images revealed it in observations from as far back as June 2004. It was first ...
SPRITE (Saturn PRobe Interior and aTmospheric Explorer) was a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission concept of the NASA. SPRITE is a design for an atmospheric entry probe that would travel to Saturn from Earth on its own cruise stage, then enter the atmosphere of Saturn, and descend taking measurements in situ .
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back images looking over the shoulder of Saturn's rings. See more on Saturn's rings: No telescope on this planet would ever have been able to see this.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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.
In February 2009 it was announced that ESA/NASA had given the EJSM mission priority ahead of TSSM, [11] [12] although TSSM will continue to be studied for a later launch date. The Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) was created by the merging of the ESA's Titan and Enceladus Mission (TandEM) with NASA's Titan Explorer 2007 flagship study.
Lunar orbiter, intentionally crashed at end of mission. Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe India: 14 November 2008: Impactor. Water found. SELENE Rstar (Okina) Japan: 12 February 2009 Lunar orbiter, intentionally crashed at end of mission. Chang'e 1 China: 1 March 2009: Lunar orbiter, intentionally crashed at end of mission. Kaguya Japan: 10 June 2009