Cassini Probe Does Titan Flyby

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @10:40AM from the wave-for-the-camera dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes "Today, Cassini had its first close encounter with Titan around 8:30AM PDT. Data from the flyby will start coming down around 6:30PM PDT, and you can watch the pictures live on NASA TV. If you want higher resolution or just to stare at one picture for a while, the raw images will be put on the web right away, with pretty press images to follow the next day. And if you want to know about the observations planned for the flyby, you can read this PDF or watch this animation."

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Really Glad NASA didn't screw up this one!!!! by woodsrunner · 2004-10-26 15:14 · Score: 0, Troll

The cassini launch was a big controversy since if it blew up before leaving the atmosphere it would have been enough explosives to blow the earth up leaving Mars as the third planet from the sun....

glad they used the right "O" rings!

The hubris of the whole mission leaves me ambivilant about the accomplishment.