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...retail field trip is part education, part marketing, and all the rage. Groups of children from schools, summer camps and Girl and Boy Scout troops are taking organized tours through establishments ranging from Sports Authority stores to Saturn dealerships to Krispy Kreme outlets. With school budgets squeezed in recent years, these free excursions are in some cases replacing trips to more traditional destinations. While companies are eager to polish their community image, critics say the real goal is to turn kids into brand-loyal consumers...
...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...
...Saturn has seven rings, ranging in width from just 30 miles to 188,000 miles. Each is a shallow river of ancient ice and rocky rubble. Gravitational eddies-not to mention small moons circling within the rings and at their edges-twist the rubble into braids, ridges and gaps...
SCIENCE SPACE: After a 3.6-billion-km trip, a nasa craft is set to orbit Saturn...