Seeing Saturn. (Astronomy).After 5 years of interplanetary travel By definition, interplanetary travel is travel between bodies in a given star system, especially the solar system. Reasons for interplanetary travel The costs and risks of interplanetary travel receive a lot of publicity — spectacular examples include the , the Saturn-bound Cassini mission has obtained its first image of the ringed planet. Released Nov. 1, the image was taken when Cassini was 285 million kilometers from Saturn--nearly twice the distance between Earth and the sun. The image shows the shadow of the planet falling across its rings. "Seeing the picture makes our science-planning work suddenly seem more real," says Alfred S Alfred, 849–99, king of Wessex (871–99), sometimes called Alfred the Great, b. Wantage, Berkshire. Early Life The youngest son of King Æthelwulf, he was sent in 853 to Rome, where the pope gave him the title of Roman consul. . McEwen of the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. in Tucson. Cassini is scheduled to begin orbiting Saturn on July 1, 2004. During a subsequent 4-year tour, the craft will study the composition of the planet itself, its rings, and its moons. On Jan. 14, 2005, Cassini is scheduled to release a probe that is scheduled to parachute through the thick atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Astronomers Famous astronomers and astrophysicists include: Directory: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
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