Susan Kitchens has a great post up about this week's (this year's, maybe) most exciting event in planetary exploration. The Huygens probe, which was carried on the Cassini space craft will be landing. Head over to 2020 Hindsight and read her great post which gives some great information including the critical timeline.
Thanks, Susan!
Posted by asa at January 10, 2005 07:10 PMI think there will be much space excitement in 2005. Cassini's mission overall will give us much more data than the 30 or so minutes of data expected from Huygens. The rovers continue to truck on. You also have Mars Odyssey and the MOC, plus Mars Express. The MRO will be launched. Then there's "Deep Impact" on (if all goes well) July 4, 2005. Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, the (hopeful) return of the shuttle to flight, more building of the ISS (if the shuttle gets going again)...
No, 2005 will not be dull at all!
Posted by: Fred Kiesche on January 12, 2005 08:23 AM