Saturday, June 12, 2004
CASSINI SNAPS PHOEBE
Zooming into the Saturnian system, the Cassini probe passed within 1200 miles of Saturn's tiny moon Phoebe, snapping excellent pics along the way.:
With the Phoebe flyby accomplished, Cassini is on course for Saturn. A trajectory correction maneuver is scheduled for June 16. Cassini will conduct a critical 96-minute burn before going into orbit around Saturn on June 30 (July 1 Universal Time). During Cassini's planned four-year tour it will conduct 76 orbits around the Saturn system and execute 52 close encounters with seven of Saturn's 31 known moons.
Chalk up another one for the human race ... and its robots.
GB, THHOTA
posted by Greg 10:29 PM
