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NEWS RELEASE: 2008-065 April 17, 2008
Saturn Images Showcased in New York City
A selection of the best images from Saturn, its rings and moons will appear in an exhibition
opening on April 26 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The show, called "Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission," will run through March
29, 2009. It features dramatic, up-close-and-personal images in small individual views and
super-large mosaics. Roughly 50 images taken by the Cassini-Huygens mission in visible light,
infrared and radar have been hand-picked by a team of Cassini scientists.
"The images show the Saturn system as we had never seen it before. They perfectly blend
exploration, science and beauty," said Joe Burns, the exhibit's guest co-curator and a Cassini
imaging scientist at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. "We are excited to have the opportunity to
show these breathtaking photographs to the broader public in one of the world's greatest science
museums." Burns, along with colleagues at Cornell University and on the Cassini project, has
been collaborating with museum curators for the past year on the image selection, scientific
captions and exhibit design.
The Cassini spacecraft has been in orbit around Saturn for nearly four years. It is the first orbiter
to study Saturn in detail. The piggybacked Huygens probe, provided by the European Space
Agency, plunged through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in 2005. Huygens was
the first probe to land on the surface of a moon other than our own. The orbiter and probe have
shown birdseye and ground-level views of Titan, an Earth-like world featuring river valley
networks and lakes filled with hydrocarbons. Cassini has discovered water-ice geysers spewing
from Enceladus, a smaller moon of Saturn, and has detected five new moons and observed a very
dynamic ring system.
For exhibition information see: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/photo/saturn/ . More
information about the Cassini-Huygens mission is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
and
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency
and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
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