On Wednesday Casini-Huygens is going to pass through the rings of Saturn. I suppose that it will take some really cool pictures as it completes its one and only pass through the rings.
This project is pretty neat besides its passage through the rings. The probe is giong to orbit Saturn for a while, but it’s going to eject a lander that is going to check out Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. Titan looks to be a pretty interesting place. 1/4 the diameter of Earth, it has an atmosphere that goes out 600 miles (that’s 10 times the depth of Earth’s atmosphere) that has a lot of methane gas in it. Scientists say that there might even be liquid lakes of methane on Titan. Hopefully, it survives and sends back good pictures, even though the landing isn’t until November, I think.
