The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System

The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System, Google Tech Talk - May 23, 2007

ugordan View Member Profile	Aug 28 2007, 06:21 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523	(Apologies if this was already posted somewhere.) A rather long talk (74 min) by Carolyn Porco posted on YouTube about the previous three years at Saturn. QUOTE ABSTRACT A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a ringed, softly-hued planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine descends through a hazy atmosphere and lands on the surface of an alien moon, ten times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Fantastic though they seem, these visions are not a dream. For seven years, the Cassini spacecraft and its Huygens probe traveled invisible interplanetary roads to the place we call Saturn. Their successful entry into orbit a thousand days ago, the mythic landing of Huygens on the cold, dark equatorial plains of Titan, and Cassini's subsequent explorations of the... -------------------- www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan

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Del Palmer View Member Profile	Aug 28 2007, 08:46 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 21-January 07 From: Wigan, England Member No.: 1638	Great video; thanks for the heads-up! Trust Carolyn to get excited about heated toilet seats... -------------------- "I got a call from NASA Headquarters wanting a color picture of Venus. I said, “What color would you like it?” - Laurance R. Doyle, former JPL image processing guy

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ugordan The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System Aug 28 2007, 06:21 PM

Del Palmer Great video; thanks for the heads-up! Trust C... Aug 28 2007, 08:46 PM

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