The Huygens probe had an acoustic sensor, basically a microphone, to try to detect thunder if you actually had lightning. The acoustic sensor would sample two-second intervals in certain ...

NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, launched in 1997, is considered by scientists and astronomers to have accomplished "the most complex gravity assist trajectory flown to date." An international ...

The Cassini spacecraft spent 20 years exploring Saturn, revealing incredible details about its rings, moons, and atmosphere.

Although the probe has gone its science lives on ... it will continue its re-writing of the textbooks." The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint endeavour of Nasa, and the European and Italian ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

THE central interest of Huygens' life and work may be said to be his relations with Galilei and Descartes on one hand, and with Newton and the English men of science on the other. Descartes and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

In over 40 flybys of Titan, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft managed to 'see' the surface of the moon with its radar experiment and an infrared camera. By the end of the mission, the Cassini orbiter had ...