... What a wonderful image! You really get a feel for the relatively great distance between the [puny] earth and moon compared to other planets and their...
Cassini Significant Events for 02/27/08 - 03/04/08 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, March 4, from the Madrid tracking complex. The...
... As this D-Day approaches, let me direct your attention to message #3852 in the archives [ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cassinihuygens/message/3852 ]...
... Going back through the messages, I find there's a tendency for scientists to view all events as destructive. Entropy aside, isn't there enough evidence in...
Great questions, all, Art! I think the one thing we've learned about the solar system is that it will always surprise! That holds especially true for the...
... was that this would explain how Saturn spews out more energy than it receives from the Sun. Too bad there's no $$$ in hairbrained schemes. I'd then have a...
... universe from the scale of subatomic particles to clusters of galaxies. Must viewing for anyone here lucky enough to find it I found it used for a few...
... You're a lucky man! I just checked Amazon -- 37 copies from $4.29 [used] on up, with $9.98 as new. Hefty for a 36 minute film. But since I consider myself...
Enceladus Flyby Mar. 12, 2008 (SCET) Altitude 52 km (32.3 miles) Speed 14.4 km/sec (32,234 mph) ======== At that low altitude and high speeds, what's the...
VANGUARD I CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN SPACE: The Vanguard I satellite celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Its launch on March 17, 1958 from Cape Canaveral,...
... The Vanguard I satellite celebrates its 50th birthday this year. ... (http://www.physorg.com/news124646257.html) Seems like only yesterday! Covers to the...
Another world joins the list of Solar System objects thought to have once had an Ocean - Tethys! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7297408.stm...
Thanks for the story John. This is really starting to become quite mind boggling and damn exciting. When Europa was first thought to have a liquid ocean, that...
John/All, I'm just catching up with the Enceladus flyby now. The images are wonderful, showing excellent detail, although I was disappointed to learn that the...
Cassini Significant Events for 03/05/08 - 03/11/08 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, March 11, from the Canberra, Australia...
... of March 19th, you're likely to notice a yellowish looking star nearby. That's not a star. It's the planet Saturn. For those of you who missed Saturn's...
