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NASA Sending Probe to Saturn

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the into-the-great-wide-open dept.

Plissken writes "Nasa along with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency have launched a towards Saturn in hopes of obtaining vital data to help understand the mysterious, vast region. The Cassini-Huygens mission is composed of two elements: The Cassini orbiter that will orbit Saturn and it's moons for four years, and the Huygens probe will dive into the depths of Titan and land on it's surface. If all goes well, more than 200 scientists worldwide will study the data collected."

3 of 200 comments (clear)

  1. Re:200 scientists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All the data from NASA missions is normally
    released in the public domain after 12 months.
    The delay is to give their scientists a head
    start in the publicating their work.

    In some cases the data is witheld like in the
    case of the almost global world RADAR map with
    30 m resolution

  2. Re:200 scientists by JimPooley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So what exactly would you do with the raw data from the probe? They're probably just giving it out to people who are actually capable of using it. There'd be no point NASA being slashdotted by people who have absolutely no use for raw data just going in to have a look...

    --

    "Information wants to be paid"
  3. here's a more interesting story... by g4dget · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Japan just launched a space probe for a sample return mission from an asteroid. Here is a home page for the mission (but rather outdated). Apparently, it also uses electric propulsion.