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...dropped in on a neighbor, Astronomer Varkey Kallarakal, who helps man the Navy's 26-in. refracting telescope, and taken a long look at Saturn's rings...
...first U.S. satellite, it has sent some 40 spacecraft soaring into the cosmos. The J.P.L.'s sophisticated machines, operating on complex instructions stored in silicon brains, have explored every member of the sun's family of planets, from inner-most Mercury to the remote giant Saturn. Even now a J.P.L. robot is speeding toward Uranus, 1.7 billion miles away, for a 1986 photographic reconnaissance...
Astronomy is also turning to the classics for discoveries made during the unmanned Voyager spacecrafts' flybys of Saturn's moons. Craters on Mimas, for example, will be named for characters from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; the recently photographed fissures on Enceladus, for those from the Arabian Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after...
...study of these distant bodies has supported the idea that life could exist on other planets, Goody said. Titan, Saturn's biggest satellite, has been shown to have a deep atmosphere, unlike most satellites, which are too light to hold an atmosphere by gravitational attraction...
...some of the spellbinding vistas opened up by the U.S. program of planetary exploration. In the past two decades, technologically gifted robots, acting as electronic eyes and ears, have flown by and inspected every planet known to the ancients, from sunbaked Mercury, the innermost planet, to distant Jupiter and Saturn...