Nasa's next mission: Saturn!
May. 3rd, 2004 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearover here is nasa's home page for the Cassini-Huygens project, a probe on its way to saturn, with the huygens half (named for christian huygens, the dutchman who correctly theorized that the rings were made of ice chunks) to do a landing on Titan, the first landing of a probe on another planet's moon.
the Titan part (if the probe doesn't hit the same problems that cursed so many of the mars landers) should be the most fascinating. spectrographic analysis shows that the clouds of Titan are amino acids, the building blocks of proteins (and by extension, life itself). one wonders what it would be like to be rained on by life itself...
the Titan part (if the probe doesn't hit the same problems that cursed so many of the mars landers) should be the most fascinating. spectrographic analysis shows that the clouds of Titan are amino acids, the building blocks of proteins (and by extension, life itself). one wonders what it would be like to be rained on by life itself...
