The Prime Meridian(本初子午线) here is the longitude, the mark on the ground, from which all great voyages are measured. This is the view back to our remarkable home planet/ that the first human out here can look forward to, a distant blue dot l...
Breathing from a so-dubbed scuba unit and now fitted in a cross between a super ski suit and a haz-mat coverall, future Titannauts could explore with confidence. You just need that thermal protection and oxygen, and then you can play on the surface a...
These are just bold first steps on a journey that's just begun. Even before the mission is over, Cassini has left a thirst for a return trip. Planetary explorer Jonathan Lunan and aeronautical pioneer Julia Nod think they know the perfect way to do i...
The by-product of billions of years of production from the chemical smog factory in the upper atmosphere, the grains in Titan's dunes may literally fall from the sky. Like a rain of flash-frozen coffee grounds, they are swept by the wind into deep pi...
Huygens landed on Titan. It/ sent back these few hundred pictures, until the batteries died and the probe froze solid. The probe landed with a thud, on basically a streambed，an area/ littered with rounded cobbles, and showed that these little rocks...
Cassini has solved the mystery of how at least one of Saturn rails' formed, and this may help solve the bigger mystery of life beyond Earth, * may be the hottest ticket in town, but don't overlook the heavy weight container for the titan lovemoon wit...
Heres the surprise entry into search for life, this little moon that youd expect to be pretty dead and dull, and coming out of the South Pole of it is a jet of water ice, all the things you need for life are there. Theres an energy source, theres a w...
It was unraveling a puzzle and so the magnetometer team says lets go closer, as we go closer, we watched as the star went through and noticed the change in brightness, something is going on. We can see even from a distance, there seem to be this mate...
...
Huygens Spacecraft Arrives at Saturn Moon “慧更斯”号抵达土星卫星 After a seven-year ride to Saturn on the U.S. Cassini spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe is finally at...
