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January 19, 2004 – Undeterred by the spectacular failure of their This time next year, ESA’s Huygens spaceprobe Earlier this month, the giant ringed planet Saturn was closer to Those in the outer lanes have further to travel than those on the inside from the European January 19, 2004 – Undeterred by the spectacular failure of their Beagle Martian explorer, which lost contact with controllers during the descent to the surface of the Red Planet, the European Space agency is preparing for a descent onto one … Continue reading
\n Beagle <\/a>Martian
\n explorer, which lost contact with controllers during the descent to the
\n surface of the Red Planet, the European Space agency is preparing for
\n a descent onto one of the moons of Saturn. <\/p>\n
\n will be descending through the
\n atmosphere
\n of
\n Titan,
\n Saturn’s
\n largest
\n moon,
\n becoming the first spacecraft
\n to land on a body in the outer Solar System.<\/p>\n
\n Earth than it will be for the next thirty years. All the planets
\n orbit the
\n Sun as if on a giant racetrack, travelling in the same direction but
\n in different lanes.<\/p>\n
\n lanes. So, Earth regularly "laps”’ the further planets. On New Year’s
\n Eve 2003, Earth overtook Saturn, drawing closer than at any time in
\n the next three decades. <\/p>\n
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