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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...
...start of a four-year tour, during which the ship will make at least 76 loops of the planet and engage a dozen cameras and instruments. NASA will be able to tweak the trajectory of the orbiter so it can slalom among nine of Saturn's 31 moons. The grandest of the satellites is Titan, which has long frustrated scientists because its dense atmosphere, laced with organic gases, obscures its surface...
...planet Saturn...
...made up mostly of hydrogen and helium and has a volume 764 times as great as Earth's. That much gas concentrated in one place ought to be dynamic, and Saturn is. Winds blow at more than 1,100 m.p.h. at the equator-the strongest gusts on any planet in the solar system-and helium rain is thought to fall out of the clouds. Temperatures at the cloud tops are a frigid -218ºF...
...thinking." He told TIME in an interview last March, "It's an important part of my getting through tough periods in my life and remains a bedrock of values--of sureness, I guess--about who I am, where we all fit, what our role is on this planet." Kerry is fascinated, he says, by various religious traditions, and in the 1980s he went to Israel with Jewish friends and read the Sermon on the Mount on the Mountain of Beatitudes. He says he and his wife Teresa also visited Capernaum, the site on the Sea of Galilee where Jesus...