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Offline Bferrero

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« on: January 14, 2004, 01:32:05 AM »
Are anyone excited about the Cassini Satalite heading to Saturn on July 1, 2004? From first glimpses this will be very interesting. To be honest space stuff scares the bejesus out of me. I am looking forward to this 4 year tenure. Will Cassini be crashed like Jupiter's Probe?
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2004, 01:48:45 AM »
What is there to be scared of? Personally I find the idea of not exploring space far more scary.

I think Cassini will tell us a lot about Saturn and I'm looking forward to when it starts sending back data.

I don't know for sure, but yes, I bet Cassini will be crashed into Saturn at the end of it's mission.
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2004, 02:18:23 AM »
All that empty space and you can't tell up from down, side to side would drive me bonkers. Overall a very exciting time for Cassini, some of the more ill advised things I've said about the power cell which is Nuclear based were of concern, but then again I'm not the great math or scientific guy. The moons should provide for some interesting learning, Saturn to me is a dark place. One thing I get confused on is there even a real surface to these gas giants?
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2004, 06:50:47 AM »
There are surfaces. The gravity of the larger planets is so big it condenses the gases. There would never even be a passing thought of landing people onto the planets but I hear some of the moons are promising.

I love to learn about the planets so I'm looking forward to the data being sent back.

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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2004, 09:38:27 AM »
I'm really looking forward to our first close up views of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

I am also hoping that this mission will generate as much excitement about space exploration as the MER mission has.
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2004, 06:14:46 PM »
From what I've read this will be a information gathering assignment, I know there are two known probes that will be sent off, as far as the camera, and all the neat trinkets for measuring planet mass, radiation, cloud cover, etc. July 1st can't be coming that fast can it?

Titan is an ice moon from what I remember in school.
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2004, 07:44:58 PM »
I thought Titan was the moon with the hydro carbon atmosphere. One spark and the entire atmosphere goes boom.

Of course that would require the presence of oxygen, or some other catalytic gas. Still, some very strange chemistry there.

No, that doesn't sound right. O.K. chemistry is not my strong subject. Anyone know the actual scoop on Titan's atmosphere?
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2004, 09:48:06 PM »
I did a Google search and came up with this news story:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030428083022.htm

"Titan's atmosphere, ten times as massive as Earth's, is primarily nitrogen laced with such poisonous substances as methane and ethane."

With all that methane Titan must have a lot of cows. :)
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2004, 10:25:58 PM »
MOO!!!
Would that make Titan's cows fresh and flourshing?
 :lol:  :shock:
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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2004, 02:33:07 PM »
Ok, so there was a news conference via Nasa's JPL headquarters in Pasadena California last week, most of what was discussed were the mission details, only a glimpse of what is to come, and lastly the gents where hopeful that the tests for Saturn insertion would be smooth. Not to jinx anything here, but I also heard that the nodule #10 had problems firing correctly, so this maybe a concern for the 96 minute burn into orbit.
 
Titan we won't know about until January of 2005.

Any ideas or thoughts as to how many rings are around Saturn? I say there about oh 50 or more. From the looks of the pictures sent back, there looks to be quite a few in there.

I was also checking out the gravity of Saturn, a puzzler for many scientists who wonder why Saturn has weird gravity.

Most planets throw it out, this one throws it in or something, if I'm following the info correctly.

Hope yall did miss me... :lol:
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« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2004, 09:13:18 PM »
Sounds like you are better informed about Cassini than I am... I have been too busy to follow it's progress.

I hope it reaches Saturn safely... a lot of people have been waiting a long time for this.
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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2004, 12:34:14 AM »
Thats cool, having a job does put things out for a bit I know, I have one now. But I do have a link for Saturn via the JPL site.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

This should give you some idea what has been going on. I've been following this since January this year, I'm not so interested in Mars as I am Saturn. (as you can already tell)
Otherwise I come back posting stuff on occassion.

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I say make the time for things you like, this is some serious science stuff I'm interested in. Thanks to many who've posted responses. I'll let yall know what transpires in the next few weeks. I know I'm going to be one busy fool with this.
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« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2004, 01:53:01 PM »
I too will be wathching this mission closely as I have always been fascinated by Titan.

I am hoping the Huygens probe is as successful as the MER landers were!!!
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« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2004, 10:09:57 AM »
I have been watching this on NASA tv last night and it is very interesting.  I know the media has not been paying attention to this because of Spaceship One but I have.
I did not know that Titan was so far out.  I always thought it was one of the "shepard moons" that kept the ring intact.  The finding about Phoebe is also fascinating.
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« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2004, 08:38:44 PM »
Nothing to report as of yet. There was one interview done back earlier this month, but other than that no word. I did read something at Yahoo about Cassini but the article says the same thing JPL's website sez.

June 30th or July 1. We will know if Cassini made it thru the 5 hour or so burn to be captured.

Until then we wait...
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