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Giovanni [a] Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) [1] mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] near Imperia , at that time in the County of Nice , part of the Savoyard state .
Popular science articles by Porco have been published in The Sunday Times, Astronomy, the Arizona Daily Star, Sky & Telescope, American Scientist, and Scientific American. She is active in the presentation of science to the public as the leader of the Cassini Imaging Team, as the creator/editor of the website where Cassini images
However Cassini, Rømer's superior at the Royal Observatory, was an early and tenacious opponent of Rømer's ideas, [6] and it seems that Picard, Rømer's mentor, shared many of Cassini's doubts. [11] Cassini's practical objections stimulated much debate at the Royal Academy of Sciences (with Huygens participating by letter from London). [12]
She became a Cassini mission scientist in 1990. [2] In 1997, she was the editor of a NASA publication that summarizes the mission's legacy. [ 10 ] In 2010 she became the Cassini mission project scientist, a role in which she directed the entire team's scientific investigations.
Cassini–Huygens (/ k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
The fully processed composite photograph of Saturn taken by Cassini on July 19, 2013 Earth can be seen as a blue dot underneath the rings of Saturn. The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled.
Mark and his siblings grew up in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston. Their mother Alma Wahlberg worked as a bank clerk and nurse’s aide while they were kids, and their father Donald Wahlberg ...
View of Saturn from Cassini, taken in March 2004, shortly before the spacecraft's orbital insertion in July 2004. This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA, the European Space Agency ("ESA"), and the Italian Space Agency ("ASI") to send a probe to study the Saturnian system, including ...