Mission to Saturn & Titan: Cassini-Huygens.

The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is the most ambitious effort in planetary space exploration ever mounted.

A scientific probe called Huygens will be released from the main spacecraft to parachute through the atmosphere to the surface of Saturn’s largest and most interesting moon, Titan.


Mission objectives:

Cassini-Huygens is designed to shed light on many of the unsolved mysteries arising from previous observations, such as:


-what is the source of heat inside Saturn that produces 87 per cent more energy than the planet absorbs from sunlight?
-what is the origin of Saturn’s rings?
-where do the subtle colours in the rings come from?
-are there any more moons?
-why has the moon Enceladus such an abnormally smooth surface? (Has recent melting erased craters?)
-what is the origin of the dark organic material covering one side of the moon Iapetus?
-which chemical reactions are occurring in Titan’s atmosphere?
-what is the source of methane, a compound associated to biological activity on Earth, which is so abundant in Titan’s atmosphere?
-are there any oceans on Titan?
-do more complex organic compounds and ‘pre-biotic’ molecules exist on Titan?




Check out these two websites for more and interesting information:


NASA: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

ESA: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

Oh, that's not true! Didn't you read the Did man land on the moon? post?

Originally posted by CliffLandin
Oh, that's not true! Didn't you read the [b]Did man land on the moon? post?[/b]

Originally posted by CliffLandin
Oh, that's not true! Didn't you read the [b]Did man land on the moon? post?[/b]

Originally posted by ivanhoe

If this isn't true, then it sure is the most interesting and exciting hoax since the Coca-Cola company launched Santa Claus to promote their products from Alaska to Beyjing .......

Originally posted by skeeter
I think he's just being sarcastic in regard to my tirade about NASA fluffing the spectacle of putting a man on the moon.

So whats up ivanhoe? Did you read Cribs' callout on FW asking you to return?

skeeter

Originally posted by ivanhoe

If this isn't true, then it sure is the most interesting and exciting hoax since the Coca-Cola company launched Santa Claus to promote their products from Alaska to Beyjing .......

Originally posted by ivanhoe

.... to return ?

Originally posted by skeeter
My Freudian slip. Bizzaro FW ivanhoe has been posting in your "name"
Cribs has offered the 'nick' to you, no strings attatched.

skeeter

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
While the Coca-Cola is to blame for many things the image of Santa is not among them. I refer you to Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp