Cassini–Huygens

geological evidences of life. With net expenditure of approximately three billion dollars, the Cassini-Huygens space mission to Saturn system was a joint assignment among finest space agencies; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency/Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI). The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was named after two celebrated scientists for their early contributions in understanding Saturn, a planet which we…

The Cassini Orbiter Quite a few people don’t know much about space or satellites. So I am here to clear it up a little bit. Many people believe that satellites and orbiters are the same thing; they similar but work and give different information. The satellite work Throughout this paper you will learn about the Cassini orbiter, what it does and is meant to do, about its missions, and how it all started. The Cassini was launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, FL. It had to…

Astronomer Giovanni Cassini Astronomer Giovanni Cassini is the scientist I chose because he discovered the moons of my favorite planet. He is associated with many amazing astronomical discoveries, including the first observations of Saturn's moons. For this reason, the Cassini spacecraft was named after him. It was launched in 1997 and plunged into the planet in 2017. Born on June 8, 1625, in Perinaldo, Republic of Genoa (now Italy), he was given the name Giovanni Domenico by his parents, Jacopo…

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in…

Since the launch of Cassini in 1997, its images have fascinated people and scientists with their beauty and complexity. For its latest mission, the best choice for Cassini's camera is Jupiter and its orbit. This is because it has been 25 years since a photo of Jupiter like this has been taken so this picture will provide valuable information to exoplanet researchers by showing us how planets with atmospheres look from one billion miles away. One of the reasons why Cassini should take this…

throughout the world, and it set a basis to make times and dates.The spring drive clock was a small, useful item in households, and was used as a pocket clock.The spring driven clock was the first clock invented, and it was a small and portable clock. One of the most famous inventors named Galileo made many improvements on clocks. Galileo during the early 1600’s created a weight that was suspended from a point in which the weight swings back and force, due to gravity (Wallace).The pendulum was…

The Cassini mission is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the orbiter was designed and assembled. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. Development of the Huygens Titan probe was managed by the European Space Technology and Research Center, whose prime contractor for the probe is Alcatel in France. Equipment and instruments for the probe were supplied from many countries, including the United States. The Cassini program is a 19-year…

The Huygens probe was engineered to fulfill all objectives regarding Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The probe was made to withstand landing and collect as much information as possible. The design enabled the probe to brake while descending into Titan’s atmosphere followed by parachuting the remaining spacecraft equipped with instruments to the moon’s surface. Engineers were uncertain where the landing site would be and enabled the probe with different features making it capable of landing on…

Titan was discovered by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1665. Huygens was born in 1629 to a wealthy Dutch family. As a boy Huygens showed great promise in mathematics and in 1645 enrolled the University of Leiden. After discovering the law of refraction, Huygens developed a new telescope and began to study Saturn’s rings in 1655. Ten years later he discovered a large object on Saturn’s outer ring, which he dubbed Titan. Though Huygens died in 1695 his legacy endures as Titan stands as a…

been looked at by astronomers and scientists since 700 BC and is still trying to be figured out today. In this paper, we will be taken through time to learn about Saturn’s history, its composition, and most importantly its ring system. Figure 1. Image of Saturn taken from Cassini in October 2004 Saturn was first recorded in 700 BC by the Assyrians. They named it “The Star of Ninib”. Then in approximately 400 BC Greek astronomers thought it was a wondering star and named it after the god of…