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Closer every day ... a shot taken two weeks ago by the Cassini spacecraft, now just 15 million miles from Saturn and set to enter orbit on the 1st of July, seven years after it left Earth.

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Cassini will spend four years orbiting Saturn, and launch what may be one of the most significant missions in space exploration to date when the Huygens probe, a smaller vehicle which has been piggybacking on Cassini, is dispatched to the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan.


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im i crazy or does saturn actually seem to move when u read the bottom para graph
 

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MERCURY

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MESSENGER performed a successful Earth swingby a year after launch, on 2 August 2005, with the closest approach at 19:13 UTC at an altitude of 2,347 kilometers (1,458 statute miles) over central Mongolia. On December 12, 2005, a 524 second long burn ('Deep-Space Maneuver' or 'DSM-1') of the large thruster adjusted the trajectory for the upcoming Venus swing-by.[1] MESSENGER made its first flyby of Venus at 08:34 UTC on October 24, 2006 at an altitude of 2,992 kilometers (1,859 mi). A second flyby of Venus was made at 23:08 UTC on June 5, 2007 at an altitude of 338 kilometers (210 mi). On October 17, 2007, 'Deep-Space Maneuver-2' or 'DSM-2' was executed successfully, putting MESSENGER on target for its first flyby of Mercury.[2] MESSENGER made a flyby of Mercury on 14 January 2008 (closest approach 200 km above surface of Mercury at 19:04:39 UTC),[3] and will make two more flybys of Mercury on October 6, 2008 and September 29, 2009, successively slowing down the spacecraft. Mercury orbit insertion will be on March 18, 2011, beginning a year-long orbital mission.

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Transit of Mercury. Mercury is the small dot in the lower center, in front of the sun.
 

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This continues to be easily one of the best threads in this joint.
 

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First time viewing this thread..........great pics.

Really? That surprises me -- this thread is a true classic. I think my last 10+ desktop wallpapers have come from this thread.

Right now I'm sporting the Northern Lights pic...
 

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