cassini/huygens to saturn 20 years after voyager after school astronomy clubs
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Cassini/Huygens to Saturn
20 Years After Voyager
After School Astronomy ClubsLou Mayo / NASA/GSFC
May 18, 2004
Oct 8, 2004
May 1, 2003
Saturn’s Movement Through the Sky
Nov 16, 2004
Galileo's sketch of 1616 and engraving in The Assayer of 1623.
Christiaan Huygens
Giovanni Cassini
Christian Huygens Sketches of Saturn ~ 1640
1659, Systema Saturnium ("The Saturnian System")
Voyager
Moons
Titan IVB/Centaur occured at 4:43 a.m. EDT, October 15, 1997
Jupiter 5m Methane
Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) vs. Voyager IRIS
Jupiter Radio Emission
Cassini SaturnApril 16, 2004727nm Methane24 million miles
110K 70K 90K
Prometheus
Pandora
Cassini F ring35 million miles
water ice
hydrocarbons
2 m 2.8 m 5 m
CH4 Cloudr >>0.1 m
150k
m
300km
Probe material prepared by Shaun StandleyESA Huygens Systems Engineer
The Huygens Probe Mission
E/PO material prepared by Jane Houston Jones, Cassini-Huygens Outreach
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