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what did you learn about nassa's cassini mission?
i learnt about rings of saturn, small moons that are within those rings, information from previous fly-bys of saturn.
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- DavrosLv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
Cassini has revealed too many highlights of the Saturnian sytem to list them. For me personally the main focus has been about lifting the lid on Titan. A world that proved a great disappointment for Voyager due to it's shrouding atmosphere turned out to be everything weird and wonderful predicted of it - the anti-greenhouse effect, the hydrocarbon lakes and rivers, ethane rain, vast mudflats of natural plastics hemmed by mountains made of ice, cryovolcanoes. It's a place screaming for further exploration.
- QuadrillianLv 74 years ago
The most interesting thing I learned is the true extent of the seas on Titan. Before Cassini, there was speculation that most of Titan was covered in liquid. Not so. There are only a few scattered seas.
Unfortunately we still do not know the nature of these seas, because the Huygens probe missed landing in one. Imagine seas of liquid ethane. There's nothing like it on Earth. It would have to be a prime target for the next deep space probe, and would surely be vastly more interesting than yet more boring pictures of dust and craters.
Cheers!
- nineteenthlyLv 74 years ago
Mainly about the hexagon, which was apparently discovered by the Voyagers though, and Titan and Enceladus.