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Saturn has been ready for its close-up for a long time. On June 30 the planet is going to get it as the $1.4 billion Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, after a journey of 2.2 billion miles, fires its retrorockets and puts itself into Saturnian orbit...
...Saturnalia Begin After a 2.2 billion-mile trip, a NASA craft is set to orbit the ringed planet...
SCIENCE SPACE: After a 3.6-billion-km trip, a nasa craft is set to orbit Saturn...
First, Gabrielse used lasers to excite the electron in a cesium atom into a higher orbit. When the cesium atom collides with a positron, the electron binds with the positron, to create an atom that is half matter and half antimatter. When that atom collides with an antiproton, the positron binds to the antiproton, forming an antihydrogen atom...
TRIP PAST THE SUN Venus passes between Earth and the sun more than once a year on average, but because its orbit is tilted with respect to Earth's, a lineup precise enough to permit a transit is much rarer...