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| cassini-huygens mission |
| 01.14.05 (8:08 pm) [edit] |
today is certainly a historic day for all mankind!
the european designed huygens probe was deployed from the satelite cassini, and has made a successful touchdown on the surface of titan, one of saturn's moons.
discovery science channel is to show live coverage of this event soon.
some mind-blowing facts of this mission:
-- cassini made a slingshot maneuver around venus twice and once around earth to gather enough momentum through gravity to reach saturn.
-- cassini entered saturn's orbit at a speed of 45,000 mph and passed through it's rings at the broadest space between them.
-- brakes were applied in the form of a 96 min burn of it's rockets!!!
-- while cassini remains in orbit around saturn, its probe huygens was deployed to titan, which entered the moon's atmosphere at a speed of 13,000 mph.
-- after entering the atmosphere, it deployed and jettisoned several parachutes for it's 2 and 1/2 hr descent!!!
-- sadly titan's temperatue is around -176 C? F? and so the instruments abroad the probe can only last a few hours, but images and data have been radioed to cassini which is transmitting the data to earth.
a big salute and congratulations to the teams that made this possible.
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