Saturday 19 April 2008

NASA Extends Cassini's Mission


Source: NASA/Cassini
Cassini's mission originally had been scheduled to end in July 2008. NASA now announces a two-year extension that will include 60 additional orbits of Saturn and more flybys of its exotic moons. These will include 26 flybys of Titan, seven of Enceladus, and one each of Dione, Rhea and Helene. The extension also includes studies of Saturn's rings, its complex magnetosphere, and the planet itself. (read more)

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