March 04, 2004
Saturn
Many of you may not know, but NASA sent a spacecraft to Saturn called Cassini in 1997. There was a lot of controversy at that time since the spacecraft packs a bunch of plutonium for fuel and NASA decided to use the Earth’s gravity to slingshot the baby toward Saturn.
I used to track the progress of the spaceship using NASA’s Solar System Simulator (try it!). However, since the flight took like 6 years, I lost interest.
Anyway, Cassini is orbiting Saturn now and is taking some amazing shots. Here’s one, with credit to the JPL.
Wow, that recent picture looks just like this one generated (for today) by the Solar System Generator… neat!
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The generated picture even took into account the shadow of Saturn on the rings!
Posted by: Brett at March 5, 2004 08:59 AM
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