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at the end of a nearly seven year journey having covered three-and-a-half
billion kilometers there remained one crucial manoeuvre mission controllers in
pasadena were confident as cassini-huygens approach the planet but
admitted that there would be nail-biting moments but on july the first the
spacecraft sail through the ring plane its engine fired for a 96 minute burn
and when communications were re-established there could be no doubt
at all for the first time in the history of space exploration a man-made
satellite is today orbiting satellite but at least the next four years the
United States and Europe now have a science out those to observe the planet
its rings and icy satellites and particularly its largest and mysterious
moon Titan and we got ourselves a mission where in Saturn orbit with just
where we wanted to be so everything's great plus rush Europeans the Americans
of Goddess there
we've still got a lot of work to do ourselves even before this satin orbit
insertion Cassini had been examining the planet its magnetospheric imaging
instrument had pictured for the first time the magnetic bubble of charged
particles that surround the planet the addition of hydrogen seen here in red
escaping from the magnetosphere comes mainly from regions well outside the
Rings and perhaps beyond the orbit of Titan
when the spacecraft reached the magnetosphere its radio and plasma-wave
instrument registered the series of sonic booms the shockwaves where the
incoming solar wind meets and is deflected by the magnetic bubble in much
the same way that air flows around a supersonic plane during the approach
Cassini observe the effects of small moons this view of the F ring taken by
the spacecraft narrow-angle imaging camera has been really protective to
show the ring as a straight line this process elongates the moon
promethea seen to the lower left a faint stream of material called a streamer
appears to link the moon to the ring possibly caused by the moon's bobbing up
and down in its orbit and perturbing the ring on july the first only 20,000
kilometers above sentence cloud tops and before recrossing the ring plane have
seen his sons instruments were again probing the environment and imaging the
Rings this time at close quarters and was beyond description really it was
mind-blowing it was every adjectives you could think of
I'm surprised that has surprised IM at the beauty and the clarity of these
images they are shocking to me I thought that my team here was playing tricks on
me and showing me a simulation of the rings and other rings itself the rings
are made up of ice particles which can reach the size of small rocks the visual
and infrared mapping spectrometer has discovered that the ice crystals or
grains on the surface of these big snowballs increases in size further away
from the planet the outer part of the a ring viewed from the north
unlit side show density waves or ripples due to the moon
Jana's pandora and Prometheus after crossing the ring plane for the second
time
Cassini looked up at the F ring now illuminated and it's bright core
approximately 50 kilometers wide and narrow angle image shows whiskey ribbon
light features inside the ring
really caused by the small moons Prometheus unidentified material in the
Rings does dirt has also been discovered just after going into orbit the
so-called dirty material is most abundant in the thinnest part of the
Rings in the Cassini division and in the inker and other small gaps this mystery
material appears remarkably similar to the black layer seen on Saturn's moon BB
Cassini has also been targeting the giant moon Titan spectra data obtained
mid-june clearly show a variety of molecules such as acetylene here the
tall spike Ethan and propane organic chemistry which is at work on enjoy
yourself title and possibly on the CFA's for some birds a1 which was at work
before life on Earth
untitled it has not evolved so by studying the organic chemistry at title
we we would study the actual chemistry which was at work on earth before life
and this is what makes it very very exciting the day after Saturn orbit
insertion Cassini was again aiming sights on titan now some 300,000
kilometers away piercing the layer of small been shrouding the moon images
from the cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer revealed with great
clarity an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in the southern
hemisphere color was used here to enhance the various wavelengths the
image on the right taken at five microns indicates dark icy regions and brighter
hydrocarbon rich materials a bright cloud of me thing particles is apparent
in all three images near the South Pole its persistence over an extensive range
of colors indicates that these cloud particles are large compared to the
typical Hayes particles surrounding the planet suggesting a very dynamic
atmosphere near the South Pole
the field of clouds is 450 kilometers across features a small as 10 kilometers
can be seen viewed a range of 339 thousand kilometers on july the second
the south polar region showed many strengths dark and bright patterns on
Titan's surface linear sinuous and circular whose origins are not yet
understood another image at a range of three hundred and forty-four thousand
kilometers show details on Titan's surface never seen before the finest
features are less than 10 kilometers across there are some linear features
that could be impact craters but the fact that many features are linear
reinforces the view that other geological processes are shaping the
surface first images arriving at satin the first clear views of Titan will just
a taste of things to come cassini-huygens has begun the first of
many orbits around the planet and the orbiters 12 instruments of the day
returning a steady stream of information Titans specialists already much data to
analyze their next Rhonda who however will be on october the 26 when Cassini
will fly past tighten at a distance of less than a thousand kilometers Huygens
mission managers for their part will be checking out the descent pro the first
images that have been received have already shown them the area will be
descending in January next year i had heard about the only person I don't have
any courage of the parent
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