Good News In History, October 15

Good News In History, October 15

Good News In History, October 15 28 years ago today, NASA and ESA’s Cassini Mission, meant to gather data on Saturn and its moons, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA’s Cassini space probe and ESA’s Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Cassini was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004.  READ about what it found…  (1997) Official project image – NASA The Views of Titan NASA-JPL-Caltech In total, the Cassini mission discovered seven new moons orbiting Saturn, including Methone, a bizarre, egg-shaped, incredibly smooth satellite 3.8 by 2.5 km in size. It also flew by the giant irregular satellite, Phoebe, and took the best pictures to date of this moon. In an announcement on June 28, 2004, Cassini program scientists described the measurement of the rotational period of Saturn. Because there are no fixed fe…