BBC special: "Our Saturn Years" ((lots of pics and history))

[nitpicker]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/cassini_huygens_saturn

"Our Saturn Years"
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The Cassini satellite has almost run out of fuel. Its final mission, on 15 September, is to dive into the planet's thick atmosphere, where it will meet a fiery end. For 13 years, it has been sending back to Earth images of its extraordinary discoveries at Saturn. It has documented the possible birth of a moon, tasted an extra-terrestrial ocean and watched as a giant storm encircled the entire planet.

Linda Spilker will be there to bid the spacecraft goodbye. “For me, when I first started working on Cassini in 1988, my oldest daughter Jennifer had just started kindergarten. And now, here we are in 2017, she's married and she has a daughter of her own,” says Dr Spilker, project scientist for the Cassini mission. The mission set off from Earth in 1997 to explore the giant ringworld and its menagerie of moons.
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There were originally two spacecraft: Cassini and Huygens, which travelled to Saturn attached to one another. Cassini is the American orbiter, which has been exploring Saturn since 2004. Huygens was a European landing probe, released from the Cassini “mothership” shortly after arrival in Saturn's orbit. In January 2005, Huygens descended through the atmosphere of the saturnian moon Titan, sending back information about its environment.
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Saturn’s majestic rings have been revealed as a time machine, a kind of mini-Solar System and a laboratory for studying how planets and moons are formed. We also discovered that Titan has wind, rivers, seas and lakes, just like Earth - but with an exotic twist. And through Cassini’s flybys of the enigmatic moon Enceladus, we found that many of the Solar System’s icy moons could be hiding deep oceans of water beneath their surfaces.
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[longship]

1. An incredible article!!!

The graphics all work wonderfully, even on my iPhone.

This is one of the nicest Web productions I have ever seen. It is captivating how the images and text flow together as one scrolls. Beautifully designed!

A memorable visit with a nice and fairly detailed history of Cassini-Huygens. I especially like the representation of the three planetary fly-bys as one scrolls.

Nicely done, Auntie Beeb! Very nicely done, indeed.

Highly recommended click-through! You won't see a nicer Web design for some time.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Yeah, what longship said!

Thanks nitpicker. Purely spectacular presentation.

[lastlib]

3. PBS had a great program about it last night:

Cassini: Death Dive to Saturn

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/death-dive-to-Saturn.html

Wow! Humans did this.

[hunter]

4. That's a beautiful internet article and outstanding tribute to Cassini and Huygens...

... and the scientists, engineers, technicians, and yes, politicians who made it happen.

This is humanity at its best.