Cassini to Saturn

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Cassini to Saturn 22 Years After
Voyager Maryland Science Center Teacher Thursday
Program Lou Mayo / NASA/GSFC
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May 18, 2004
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Galileo's sketch of 1616 and engraving in The
Assayer of 1623.
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Giovanni Cassini
Christiaan Huygens
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Christian Huygens Sketches of Saturn 1640
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1659, Systema Saturnium ("The Saturnian System")
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Voyager
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Saturn
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Moons
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Titan IVB/Centaur occured at 443 a.m. EDT,
October 15, 1997
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Cassini Orbiter Instruments
CAPS Cassini Plasma Spectrometer CDA
Cosmic Dust Analyzer CIRS Composite Infrared
Spectrometer INMS Ion and Neutral Mass
Spectrometer ISS Imaging Sub System MAG
Dual Technique Magnetometer MIMI
Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument RADAR
Radio Detection and Ranging Instrument RPWS
Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument RSS
Radio Science Subsystem UVIS Ultraviolet
Imaging Spectrograph VIMS Visible and
Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS)
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Cassini CIRS at Voyager IRIS Resolution
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Huygens Probe Instruments
Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument
(HASI) Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE) Descent
Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) Gas
Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) Aerosol
Collector and Pyrolyser (ACP) Surface-Science
Package (SSP)

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Jupiter 5m Methane
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Jupiter Radio Emission
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Titan
Cassini Saturn October 21, 2002 177 million miles
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Cassini Saturn March 27, 2004 30 million miles
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Cassini Saturn February 16, 2004 Methane
Absorption
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Cassini Saturn April 16, 2004 727nm Methane 24
million miles
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Pandora
Prometheus
Cassini F ring 35 million miles
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How can we see the Surface?
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Titan Aero RoverMission Concept
Orbiter
20 Months Around Titan
Aerobraking
9 Years to Titan via SEP
Titan
Orbiter Science PI
Aerorover Science PI
NASA Provided Orbiter, Launch Vehicle, DSN
Coverage and Operations International Partners
Provided Aerorover and Up to 30 of Cost of
Scientific Instruments
DSN
Earth