Saturn and his children
posted by Chet at 1:29 PM UTC
Saturn dominating our sky last evening, as the Huygens space probe begins its descent onto the surface of Titan. Here is the planet as it might have looked through a telescope, surrounded by its major moons, and, at the upper right, a star of Gemini. Amazing to be looking at that dot of light in the sky, 750 million miles away, knowing that a human instrument of knowing is about to bring a new world into our ken.
