EduHound Weekly: July 8, 2004

BRAIN TEASERS

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."

-- The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

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The international Cassini-Huygens mission is beginning an extensive tour of Saturn, its majestic rings and 31 known moons.

Launched Oct. 15, 1997, on a journey covering 3.5 billion kilometers (2.2 billion miles), Cassini is the most highly instrumented and scientifically capable planetary spacecraft ever flown. It has 12 instruments on the Cassini orbiter and six more on the Huygens probe. The mission represents the best technical efforts of 260 scientists from the United States and 17 European nations. The cost of the Cassini mission is approximately $3 billion.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a four-year study of Saturn. The 18 highly sophisticated science instruments will study Saturn's rings, icy satellites, magnetosphere and Titan, the planet's largest moon.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. It is the second largest planet in our solar system, after Jupiter. The planet and ring system serve as a miniature model for the disc of gas and dust surrounding the early sun that formed the planets. Detailed knowledge of the dynamics of interactions among Saturn's elaborate rings and numerous moons will provide valuable data for understanding how each of the solar system's planets evolved.

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