This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.
The gauze ring merges by imperceptible gradations into a moderately bright ring about 18,000 miles wide, which is separated by an interval of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from ...
The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for ...
Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ...
The House of Cassini — an eight-story Gilded Age mansion on the Upper East Side that once housed the atelier of Jackie Kennedy’s favorite fashion designer, Oleg Cassini, in its atrium — has ...
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He has been a member of instrument teams on several space missions, including the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer and the Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer. In 1995, he was awarded ...