Cassini–Huygens

Christiaan Huygens came in to prove his theory wrong. Due to improved telescopes, he was able to realize that they were, in fact, not arm, but a complex ring system. To add onto that, he also discovered one of the largest moons in our system, Titan, which again, is part of greco-roman mythological naming trend that was going on at the time. Huygens has a space probe named after him, which is actually exploring the very moon he discovered. Another astronomer by the name of Jean-Dominique Cassini…

planet Pluto and Mercury. Only a few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2 and Cassini Huygens. In 1610 an Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first human to gaze at Saturn through a telescope. To his surprise he sought to bodies at both sides of the planet, and sketched them as two separate spheres thinking Saturn was triple bodied. In 1659 ditch astronomer Cristian Huygens, using a more powerful telescope than Galileo’s, found out that Saturn wasn’t triple bodied…

that continue to explore space and the science realm, private companies competing with NASA, and budget concerns for the future. There are numerous current missions, but some of the most interesting include: Cassini, Juno, and MSL. These three missions are very intriguing. The Cassini-Huygens missions is one of the most popular missions in space. It has been a keystone of…

surrounding it that Saturn is famed for. Originally the Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei, thought that Saturn was triple bodied, but in 1658 Dutch astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, using a more powerful telescope than Galileo, announced that Saturn was surrounded by a thin, flat ring. Then in 1675 Italian-born astronomer, Jean-Dominique Cassini, discovered a “division” in between what is now, the A and B rings. That “division” is now…

Galileo Galilei. Dutch astronomer, Christian Huygens was able to draw Mars using a telescope he made. Huygens was able to notices certain spots returning to the same position at the same time each day, possibly polar ice caps. From this observation, Huygens calculated Mars has 24 hour days but, in 1666, Giovanni Cassini measure the length of one day is actually 24 hours and 40 minutes. Today’s measured value is 24 hours 37 minutes and 22.663 seconds. Huygens publishes a book about possible…

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Saturn is a gas giant and is composed of similar gasses including hydrogen, helium and methane. Saturn can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system.Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians…

Sending “150 pound bags of water,” as Laurence Krauss calls them, on missions proves to be a bad idea. Humans going on space missions only make the already expensive mission exponentially more expensive. Humans are also very adapted to this earth and are susceptible to much harm in the outer world (Dunbar). This fact makes it difficult to keep humans safe while also keeping the cost of the mission down. Another reason the cost would go up is the fuel. If we send humans to outer space, we…

Europa is on of the most recognizable moons in our solar system. This moon is the sixth (6th) closest to Jupiter and the fourth (4th) smallest of the Galilean moons ("Moons of Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," n.d.). When this moon was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, he decided to name it after Europa, meaning or daughter of the King of Tyre. Over the last forty (40) years, there have been multiple spacecraft that have raised speculation that Europa has internal convection due…

the lander because lander can go down through the whole atmospheric layers and land on the surface of Titan for collecting evidence, which can help us to find weather the origin of methane comes from the underground or not. In January 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Titan. It is a good successful example to land on Titan and it also transmitted the data back to Earth before its batteries died. Scientists got some information about its atmosphere, weather, temperature, pressure, density,…

Introduction The 15th – 18th centuries CE were a period of great change in Europe in particular after a millennium of relative stagnation. Scientific advancements, cultural enlightenment and socio-economic developments combined to create new artistic opportunities and to influence the thinking and directions of artists. In this essay I will initially provide a brief overview of scientific advancements during this time, and then relate these and the overall societal context to artistic…