Probe&#39;s descent to Saturn is payoff for Idaho scientist&#39;s 17 years
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MOSCOW, Idaho - Seventeen years of work by a University of Idaho professor underwent a critical milestone Friday when a probe from a spacecraft studying Saturn began its descent to the surface of one of the planet&#39;s moons.
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David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon.
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The European probe Huygens was due to descend to the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan, culminating a mission of more than seven years to explore one of the Solar System's great enigmas.
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After a journey of seven years and billions of miles together, NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter and ESA&#39;s Huygens probe have finally gone their separate ways.
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The Cassini spacecraft, a joint European-US mission that has been orbiting Saturn since June, dropped its wok-shaped, 2.7-meter-wide Huygens probe on a two- week freefall toward Titan, the planet&#39;s largest moon.
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Photographs and radar surveys from the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s Tuesday-night flyby of Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan are raising more questions than they&#39;re answering, say NASA scientists.
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The European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after the probe successfully detached from the Cassini spacecraft.
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WASHINGTON -- In late May, a NASA-funded robot successfully navigated one of the world's deepest sinkholes. The mission could be a prelude to a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, believed to contain a liquid water ocean.
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The European-designed Huygens spacecraft has begun its 20-day descent to Saturn&#39;s satellite Titan with the aim of penetrating its thick atmosphere and unraveling the mysteries below.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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Saturn sports a new ring in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sunday, Sept. 17, during a one-of-a-kind observation.
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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Oct. 27, 2004 âHumanity&#39;s first look at the largest piece of unexplored real estate in the solar system raised more questions than answers among scientists on the Cassini Saturn project.
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The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini Huygens mission to Saturn, which has already delivered stunning images and data of the ringed planet following insertion into the Saturnian system on 1st July this year, is poised to enter a crucial stage in its voyage of
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In the prelude to a plunge, NASA&#39;s Cassini will set Europe&#39;s Huygens probe free tonight. It&#39;s the start of a thrill ride that in three weeks will drop Huygens into the murky moon Titan.
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IT WAS the message dozens of the worldâs leading space scientists had waited years to hear. Huygens - a spacecraft the size of a family car - had successfully detached from the mother ship and begun its mission to unlock the secrets of life on earth.
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A new space probe has been sent out to try to discover the secrets of Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The American spacecraft Cassini, orbiting Saturn, has launched the probe Huygens on a course to reach Titan in about three weeks&#39; time.