Episode 57: 15 October 2012 – Cassini Huygens Mission

Launched 15 years ago today, the Cassini-Huygens
mission has been one of the outstanding successes of solar
system exploration and a model of NASA-ESA collaboration.
Professor Carl Murray. Credit QMC London In episode
14 Professor John Zarnecki spoke about the science conducted
from the surface of Titan by the Huygens lander in January 2005.
The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe had hitched a lift to
Saturn aboard the Cassini orbiter. Six years after its arrival at
Saturn, Cassini is still making spectacular discoveries about
Saturn, its majestic rings and its many moons. In this episode,
Professor Carl Murray from Queen Mary University of London talks
about some of those discoveries and how the mission will eventually
come to an end. This interview was recorded during the National
Astronomy Meeting in Manchester in March 2012.