Links
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Main Cassini-Huygens Mission Website
Cassini The Planetary Data System (PDS) – This website is the PDS home page for the Cassini mission to Saturn. It has information to help understand the spacecraft and mission, the instrument payload, details about how to find, calibrate, and analyze data from each instrument, and resources to help find more information about the core science areas that have been studied in the Saturn system.
Papers and Books Published by UVIS Team:
Cassini UVIS Pubs—includes URLs for journals – when available – where you can go to download copies of the papers. We can’t post them all here for copyright purposes.
Planetary Rings by Larry W. Esposito – published by Cambridge University Press (July 31, 2006)
Select publications, most have to be accessed via the respective journal websites and some require membership or charge a fee (see Publications List above for URLs):
Esposito, L.W et al., (2004)
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectroscopy Shows an Active Saturnian System, Science
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Educational Links:
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- LASP’s Education Page
- Astronomical Astronomy Resources
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific – Universe in a Classroom, Cassini
- NASA’s Education Page
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/radio-detection-and-ranging/
Other Interesting Links:
- NASA images of Cassini mission and much more: Planetary Photojournal
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Hubblesite
- NASA’s Aerospace Dictionary
- Sky & Telescope magazine’s tips on stargazing
- Kid’s Space Center—Telescopes and Astronomy—everything you need to know about telescopes
- Astronomy magazine
- Telescopes on a budget
- The Planetary Society—”The largest non-profit, non-governmental space advocacy group on earth”
Cassini Orbiter Science Investigations
Optical Remote Sensing
- Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS)
Team website - Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) – Amazing photos on their team website
Instrument description
Team website - Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS)
Instrument description
Team website - Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS)
Instrument description
Microwave Remote Sensing
- Radar (RADAR)
Instrument description - Radio Science Subsystem (RSS)
Instrument description
Fields, Particles, and Waves
- Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS)
Instrument description
Team website: Southwest Research Institute - Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) Instrument description
Team website: Max-Planck-Institut - Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS)
Instrument description - Dual Technique Magnetometer (MAG)
Instrument description
Team website: Imperial College - Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI)
Instrument description
Team websites: APL | Fundamental Technologies - Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS)
Instrument description
Team website: University of Iowa
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The Cassini Martini – This drink was created to celebrate Cassini’s Saturn Orbital Insertion (SOI) Event!
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