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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A closer view of the Cassini image of the Huygens Probe after its successful release. The image was taken about 12 hours after the probe&#39;s release from the orbiter.
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The international Cassini spacecraft launched a probe Friday on a three-week free-fall toward Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, where it will plunge into the hazy atmosphere and descend by parachute while its science instruments and cameras make observations.
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Space scientist involved in the Cassini-Huygen mission will be finding coming few hours longer than seven years. They have waited for a long time to unravel the mysteries of the planet like moon of Saturn, the Titan.
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Launched in 1997, the Cassini Huygens mission is a cooperative US$3.27 billion venture between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italy&#39;s space agency.
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Daniel M. Tani's 90-year-old mother died in an auto accident this week, but he has no way of getting home until late January. He must grieve from more than 200 miles away Â in orbit, aboard the international space station.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. The 2.7m-wide robot lab has passed its final systems check-out and scientists
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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Success of the space probe, flying by Saturn's largest moon Tuesday, gives the European Space Agency new clout.
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This map of the surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Iapetus (1,436 kilometers, or 892 miles across), generated from images taken by NASA&#39;s Voyager spacecraft, illustrates the imaging coverage planned during Cassini&#39;s flyby on Dec. 31, 2004.
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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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Data from the far reaches of outer space have been streaming into Dan Reisenfeld&#39;s computer at the University of Montana since late Wednesday.
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PASADENA, CALIF. - A space probe has begun a 21-day freefall toward Saturn&#39;s largest moon in a mission that scientists hope will shed light on the development of life on Earth.
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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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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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The Huygens probe appears to be on the right course after being unleashed on its journey to Saturn&#39;s largest moon Titan, says the US space agency (Nasa).