Hubble Telescope Shows Giant View of Saturn

An anonymous reader writes "The giant planet, Saturn, offers the best Southern view of its spectacular rings only three times a century. The Hubble Space Telescope astronomers published this seasonal glimpse today, in infrared, ultraviolet and visible spectral bands. The Hubble also first penetrated the changing face of Saturn's biochemically rich moon, Titan, which will be the ambitious target of a landing mission - the Cassini-Huygens probe in 294 days (July 1, 2004). Because Titan changes both spatially and temporally based on observations of its atmosphere, speculation of what drives these variations derives from the moon's high content of methane and other organic building blocks."

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Clean Mission?

[annisette]

Great photos from our earth-orbit HUBBLE. When the CASSINI-HUYGENS sppacecraft reaches orbit the photography will be spectacular. It nice to know we will only be leaving batteries on TITAN. I only hope when the mission is compleate we will not deliver a nuclear payload to this GG.