Cassini-Huygens
Cassini-Huygens je skupni projekt vesoljskih agencij NASA, ESA in ASI in je vesoljska sonda, namenjena preučevanju Saturna in njegovih naravnih satelitov.
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Sondo so izstrelili 15. oktobra 1997 in je dosegla Saturn 1. julija 2004. 25. decembra 2004 se je sonda razdelila na orbiter Cassini in sondo Huygens. Cassini zdaj kroži okrog Saturna in pošilja fotografije planeta in njegovih lun, Huygens pa je 14. januarja 2005 pristal na luni Titan in od tam poslal fotografije in atmosferske meritve.
Sonda je dobila ime po italijansko-francoskem matematiku, astronomu in inženirju Giovanniju Domenicu Cassiniju in po nizozemskem astronomu, fiziku in matematiku Christiaanu Huygensu.
Ker je sondi zmanjkalo goriva za manevriranje se je NASA odločila, da jo strmoglavi na Saturn in tako prepreči morebitni trk s Saturnovimi lunami ter posledično njihovo kontaminacijo. Sonda je strmoglavila na Saturn 15. septembra 2017 pri tem pa oddajala znanstvene podatke do zadnjega trenutka.
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Uradne spletne strani
- Cassini-Huygens main page at NASA
- Cassini Mission Homepage by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Cassini-Huygens Mission Profile Arhivirano 2013-12-16 na Wayback Machine. by NASA's Solar System Exploration
Telekomunikacije in slike
- Cassini Imaging Homepage
- DESCANSO DSN Telecom information
- CASSIE interactive web-browser-based mission explorer/simulator Arhivirano 2008-09-26 na Wayback Machine.
- Cassini information by the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
- Photo Gallery – full coverage
- Outside In – film animated from hundreds of thousands of still Cassini photographs
- Around Saturn – film featuring a virtual tour of Saturn made from a selection of more than 200,000 pictures snapped by Cassini from 2004 to 2012
Znanstveni članki
- Cassini's Tour de Saturn part A, B, C, D, E, F – descriptions of the 4-year tour of Saturn by Bruce Moomaw
- SpaceflightNow news coverage of the mission
- Countdown to Cancel the Cassini Space Probe by the Baltimore Peace Network in 1997 due to concerns over the use of plutonium
Ostalo
- Spacecraft Cassini is Visiting Saturn!—children's stories explaining the Cassini mission
- Yahoo group for the Cassini Huygens mission