Cassini-Huygens Reaches Orbit Around Saturn

Mick Ohrberg writes "The probe Cassini-Huygens is now officially in orbit around Saturn. Last nights' retro-burn was completed according to plan, down to the second, which in and of itself is an amazing feat, considering all data received is 1h24m old, as well as 900 million miles away. I must say, it was fairly exciting to watch the webcast, and see the signal fade behind the A-ring, and all but disappear behind the B-ring - all in (somewhat delayed) real-time. The SOI (Saturn Orbit Insertion) also saw Cassini-Huygens whisk by Saturn at around 68,000 mph at an altitude of about 12,000 miles from the cloud tops - the closest to the gas giant the probe will ever be during its planned 4-year mission, for instance the much awaited Huygens mission to Titan."

Comments

Re:Pictures.

[rfinnvik]

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/instruments- cassini-iss.cfm

"Cassini's higher-resolution camera is able to see a penny, 1.5 cm (0.5 in) across, from a distance of nearly 4 km (2.5 mi)."

Sounds like the cameras has some potential, at least :)

Oh, and NASA, as always, rock at converting metric to imperial... :P

1.5 cm = 0.59 in
4 km = 2.48 miles

Re:Try and imagine...

[bobcave]

Yikes - how many bonghits before *that* post??

Re:Great news!

[gargleblast]

I submitted a story about this at 7 am, but it got rejected.. go figure.

STANDARDISED SLASHDOT SUBMISSION ANALYSIS FORM

CONTENT: Does the submission contain:

Blatant anti-Microsoft bias? No
Blatant anti-MPAA/RIAA bias? No
Use of the word 'virii'? No

Score: 0

NEWSWORTHINESS: Is the story:

Topical? Yes
Timely? Yes

Score (must be 3 or more): 2

FINAL CHANCE: Is it a dupe? No

Status: *REJECTED*

(plonk!)

Re:Try and imagine...

[Ignignot]

Try and imagine, a sentence, with lots of commas, some in places they shouldn't be, going on and on, far past the boundaries of normal sentences, standing tall like a great dark god of sentences, like a toilet full melodramatic examples, and then when you think it might end and the commas stop and you yearn for a period, more come like a never ending journey towards a final ending.