Electronic Field Trip: To Saturn?

There's a new spin on virtual field trips. It's mission tracking. This one lets you follow the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and the recent landing on Titan where scientists report that "the first look at data from Huygens' descent and landing on Titan shows the Saturnian moon has Earth-like geophysical processes operating on exotic materials in very alien conditions."

Activities, facts and stories abound at NASA's site.

NASA's project site.


Here's the latest update (from www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/):
"09.05.05 -- Cassini scientists have discovered an unexpected menagerie of clouds lurking in the depths of Saturn's complicated atmosphere, while scientists studying the planet's rings have made several new findings that further our knowledge of how this dynamic system continues to evolve."