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Saturn's Secrets NASA's Cassini probe, dancing and ducking, kicks off its visit with amazing images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Jul. 12, 2004 | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets Of The Rings | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...price. Cheap ships can't carry as many instruments as luxury models, so it may take more than one mission to bring back the same science. What's more, the lower price means more frequent breakdowns, as the string of bad luck NASA had with its Mars probes in the 1990s painfully demonstrated. The upside of flying economy is that if one spacecraft is lost, it's a relatively small matter to cobble together another. That thrift-shop technology has succeeded in getting three rovers onto the surface of Mars and will be at work again this summer when NASA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets Of The Rings | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...Exploring Saturn With its half-dozen sensitive instruments, the Huygens probe is designed to study the atmosphere and surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Read explanations of each separate instrument here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cassini-Huygens Web Guide | 7/6/2004 | See Source »

...SCIENCE SPACE: NASA's Cassini probe kicks off its visit with amazing images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complete list of articles | 7/6/2004 | See Source »

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