Cassini/Huygens

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Cassini/Huygens to Saturn 20 Years After
Voyager After School Astronomy Clubs Lou Mayo /
NASA/GSFC
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Saturns Movement Through the Sky
May 1, 2003
May 18, 2004
Oct 8, 2004
Nov 16, 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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Moons
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Titan IVB/Centaur occured at 443 a.m. EDT,
October 15, 1997
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Jupiter 5m Methane
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Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) vs.
Voyager IRIS
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Jupiter Radio Emission
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Cassini Saturn April 16, 2004 727nm Methane 24
million miles
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110K 70K 90K
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Pandora
Prometheus
Cassini F ring 35 million miles
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hydrocarbons
water ice
CH4 Cloud r gtgt0.1 mm
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300km
150km
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The Huygens Probe Mission
Probe material prepared by Shaun Standley ESA
Huygens Systems Engineer
E/PO material prepared by Jane Houston Jones,
Cassini-Huygens Outreach
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