Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

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Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:41 am

The NY Times published a short video about Cassini's final plunge to Saturn's surface.

https://nyti.ms/2kAM0PH Note - NY Times shortcut, full address below:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/space/100000004003105/saturn-cassini-enceladus-moons.html

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/cassini-orbiter/

Searching for all past RI references to Cassini I was surprised no single thread had been dedicated to it, so now there is and I've included a link to all RI mentions of "Cassini" (a few include surnames):

http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=cassini

I miss Allegro and his fine imagery.
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Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

Postby MinM » Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:12 am

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Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

Postby Elvis » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:39 pm

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Giovanni Cassini (1625 – 1712)


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Christiaan Huygens (1629 – 1695)
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Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Apr 22, 2017 5:43 pm

Thanks for adding the great photos, MinM and for adding images of the scientists the spacecraft and mission commemorates, Elvis.
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Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

Postby 82_28 » Fri May 05, 2017 6:49 am

I have been searching everywhere for the optical camera's strength in capturing images. I think I have narrowed it down to less than 3 megapixels. But I don't know.
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Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

Postby Iamwhomiam » Fri May 05, 2017 10:35 pm

The two cameras are similar in some ways to digital cameras on Earth. The wide-angle camera uses lenses, while the narrow-angle camera uses mirrors, to focus light on a detector called a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) that converts light into a digital image made of pixels. But while today’s cameras on Earth have detectors with dozens of megapixels, Cassini’s cameras -- built in the early 1990s -- are closer to 1 megapixel.
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/imaging-science-subsystem/
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