|
|
 |
US-SATURN-CASSINI
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi (R) and others celebrate in the control room as the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft completes the orbit insertion retrorocket burn and to successful enters into Saturn-s orbit, 30 June 2004 at mission control at NASA-s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The peanuts are a NASA tradition for good luck. After a nearly seven-year, 2.2 billion-mile (3.5 billion-km) journey, the Cassini spacecraft with the Huygens probe executed the critical maneuver to slip through Saturn-s rings and begin the burn to eventually park itself in orbit around the planet for it-s four year mission to examine the planet and to land the Huyens probe on Titan, Saturn-s largest moon. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ROBERT GALBRAITH
|
|
|
|
Detalii fotografie |
| Loc: |
|
PASADENA UNITED STATES, 01 iul |
|
| Sursa: |
|
AFP / Mediafax Foto |
|
| Fotograf: |
|
ROBERT GALBRAITH |
|
| Data: |
|
1 Iulie 2004 |
|
| Dimensiuni: |
|
2360 x 1480 (1.63 MB) |
|
|
|
|
|
|