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Reference Sites (see also the Solar System overview)
- NASA: Saturn page,
including fact sheet, images, information on missions, resources.
- General Information: The Nine Planets Saturn page;
Astronomy for Kids page;
American Association of Amateur Astronomers Saturn page;
Virtual Journey into the Universe pages;
Sea & Sky pages; Spaceref's Saturn Today site.
- Amateur Observation: Sky & Telescope's observing
guide.
- Images: Alwyn Botha's The-Solar-System Saturn page; NASA gallery;
JPL pages.
Special Topics
- Historical Background: NASA page;
Galileo
and Saturn.
- Rings: JPL's faq's page.
- Occultations: Clip
of grazing occultation by the Moon.
Missions and Exploration (Planetary Society overview page)
- Voyager 1 & 2: (GSFC,
JPL);
Missions to the outher Solar System; Launched in 1977 to take
advantage of the fact that the Jovian planets would be in the
same general direction for a few years; In Nov 2003, they were
respectively 90 and 70 AU
from the Sun; Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object,
has been renamed Voyager Interstellar Mission (August 2002 New
York Times article),
and in Aug 2006 is at 100 AU, past the termination shock.
- Cassini:
NASA mission launched in 1997, flew by Jupiter to receive
a gravity assist and boost its speed and reached
Saturn in 2004; Carried the Huygens probe
(ESA), which descended
on Titan in 2005 (current position
page;
articles from CNN,
SFN)
References
- A. Coustenis & F. Taylor, Titan: The Earth-Like Moon,
World Scientific 2002.
- R. Lorenz & J. Mitton, Lifting Titan's Veil: Exploring
the Giant Moon of Saturn, Cambridge University Press 2002.
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