ConqueringWolf
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jun 16, 2004 19:30:49 GMT -5
The satellite is on Val's doorstep....it will be in orbit soon....and then maybe we can get some pics on the internet from NASA of Valderra sunbathing in her birthday suit
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Post by xkamelx on Jun 16, 2004 20:01:36 GMT -5
LOL!!
I wasnt even aware we were sending a satalite to Saturn, but that's very cool, lets hope everything goes as planned!!
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Post by valderra on Jun 17, 2004 1:45:59 GMT -5
LOL!! I wasnt even aware we were sending a satalite to Saturn, but that's very cool, lets hope everything goes as planned!! Me neither... it´s news to me. LOL Anyway, me sunbathing? In THAT atmosphere? LOL But if you are very good, Wolf, I may wave to you from one of our outposts when that satellite is close enough.
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jun 17, 2004 10:10:07 GMT -5
LOL..I guess i will have to find a news article about it....I will post it when i find one...
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jun 17, 2004 10:12:27 GMT -5
Circled by distinctive rings and attended by a group of at least 18 moons, Saturn has been called one of the most intriguing planetary realms in the solar system. Its largest moon, Titan, boasts organic chemistry that may hold clues to how life formed on the primitive Earth. So it is that Saturn and Titan will be the destination of the Cassini mission, a project under joint development by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The U.S. portion of the mission is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cassini's principal objectives are: determine the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the rings; determine the composition of the satellite surfaces and the geological history of each object; determine the nature and origin of the dark material on Iapetus' leading hemisphere; measure the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the magnetosphere; study the dynamical behavior of Saturn's atmosphere at cloud level; study the time variability of Titan's clouds and hazes; and, characterize Titan's surface on a regional scale. Cassini was launched on October 15, 1997 atop a Titan IV-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Cassini will first execute two gravity-assist flybys of Venus, then one each of the Earth and Jupiter to send it on to arrive at Saturn in July 2004. Upon reaching Saturn, Cassini will swing close to the planet -- to an altitude only one-sixth the diameter of Saturn itself -- to begin the first of some five dozen orbits during the rest of its four-year mission. In late 2004, the spacecraft will release the European-built Huygens probe for its descent of up to two-and-a-half hours through the dense atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The instrument-laden probe will beam its findings to the Cassini orbiter to be stored and finally relayed back to Earth. During the course of the Cassini orbiter's mission, it will perform some three dozen close flybys of particular bodies of interest -- including more than 30 encounters of Titan and at least four of selected icy satellites of greatest interest. In addition, the orbiter will make at least two dozen more distant flybys of the Saturian moons. Cassini's orbits will also allow it to study Saturn's polar regions in addition to the planet's equatorial zone. More of the details can be found at the following website... www.solarviews.com/eng/cassini.htm
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Post by valderra on Jun 17, 2004 12:14:11 GMT -5
Saturn has been called one of the most intriguing planetary realms in the solar system. Its largest moon, Titan, boasts organic chemistry that may hold clues to how life formed on the primitive Earth. As I have always known: Saturn: intriguing Earth: primitive Well, make sure your satellite isn´t going to poke around too much or I will have to blast it into a billion pieces of scrap metal.
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jun 17, 2004 18:40:33 GMT -5
It was made with 85th century technology hidden by nasa....you couldn;t even begin to comprehend how to destroy it..lol
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Post by valderra on Jun 18, 2004 5:04:19 GMT -5
It was made with 85th century technology hidden by nasa....you couldn;t even begin to comprehend how to destroy it..lol The wise always know when to be silent....
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jun 18, 2004 9:44:52 GMT -5
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Post by theartak on Jul 1, 2004 6:29:48 GMT -5
Well, Valderra, you missed your best shot to have its destruction blamed on natural causes...satellite finished making it through the rings and has secured orbit.
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Post by voyager on Jul 1, 2004 8:27:13 GMT -5
I'm surprised them NASA people got the right measurements inputed this time. Imagine the outcry if it had messed up like the Polar Lander on Mars, which was launched just a few months earlier
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jul 1, 2004 15:50:42 GMT -5
*waits to download those nekkid pics of valderra sunbathing*
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Post by xkamelx on Jul 2, 2004 13:37:18 GMT -5
I was reading the newspaper this morning, and it had an article about Saturn, and it said that Captain Jean Luc Picards autograph was orbiting Saturn as we speak. Here is how it reads:
"On Star Trek The Next Generation, actor Patrick Stewart boldly traveled where no one had gone before. In 'real life' the signature of TV's Capt. Jean Luc Picard rocketed all the way to Saturn. The signatures of Stewart, and Chuck Norris were among 616,400 that were copied onto a DVD and placed aboard th Saturn probe Cassini by the Planetary Society, a group dedicated to advance space exploriation and the search for extraterristrial life. Also included were the inked paw prints of some cats and dogs. Planetary Society official solicted the signatures as a way to bring attention to the space mission. Signatures were recieved from 81 countries and the society spent months sporting, couting, and scanning them at the request of NASA's Jet Prpulsion Labortary."
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Post by voyager on Jul 2, 2004 14:38:19 GMT -5
thats pretty cool
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Post by xkamelx on Jul 2, 2004 14:45:36 GMT -5
I'm surprised them NASA people got the right measurements inputed this time. Imagine the outcry if it had messed up like the Polar Lander on Mars, which was launched just a few months earlier I must have missed this, but you are right. Those Mars faliures really gave NASA some bad press, and really helped the side of the debate that thought we shouldnt spend so much money on the space program. I feel if this had failed, then it would have been worse for NASA, not only just that, but because this was such a long mission, going all the way out to Saturn.
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