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...spacecraft that had spent nearly seven years in flight and journeyed more than 2.2 billion miles to get where it was going, the Cassini-Huygens Saturn probe did a funny thing when it closed in on the ringed planet last week...
Traveling at a breakneck 54,000 m.p.h.--four times its cruising speed--the ship was no longer flying toward the planet but falling toward it, on a high-speed trajectory that could send it skimming past Saturn and back out into space. If the ship was going to enter a stable orbit, it would have to fire its little braking rocket for 96 min., until it reached the right speed and position to dart upward through a gap in Saturn's rings and begin circling the giant world. But when it comes to the dense rivers of ice and rubble...
Michael Moore once stated that Americans are “possibly the dumbest people on the planet.” It’s no wonder his books and movies have made such a killing in Europe. A new French comedy called L’Americain (The American) satirizes a foolish young Frenchman who is convinced he wants to be American. The movie’s advertisement features an awkward looking young man posing as the stereotypical “stupid American.” This attitude is duly reflected in Britian’s Jerry Springer: The Opera?...
...CICLOPS: Cassini Imagining Central Laboratory For Operations View special release close-up images of Saturn's ring after Cassini slipped into the planet's orbit...
...Saturn General information about the planet being probed and photographed by the Cassini-Huygens. With statistics, animation, and view of the planet as well as historical background about Saturn's rings...