1. A brief summary of the topic. What is it? What field of research does it fall under?
-Cassini Spacecarft just finished its orginal mission exploring Saturn and its moons. Its new Equinox mission is to observe seasonal changes on Saturn extending its life to this year 2010.
2. What's the big deal with this topic? Why should you care about its developments and any new discoveries that are made?
-It's life or mission is likely to be extended again, it will continue gathering information and pictures at least until 2017. After that, researchers want to land it on Saturn to find more data but only if they can find a way through the rings of Saturn.
3. What's going to happen to this topic in 2010?
-It's mission was extended to observe seasonal changes on Saturn.
4. What obstacles or setbacks are in the way of this topic's success?
-Researchers still don't know a way to get the spacecraft onto the planet Saturn because it can't go through the rings.
No comments:
Post a Comment