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DESCRIPTION:Dear All\,The Science Discovery Club will be screening the scie
 nce documentary 'Kingdom of Saturn: Cassini's Epic Quest' Nov 16\, 2018 in
  the Vikram Sarabhai Hall\, Convention Centre\, from 7 to 8 PM. All member
 s of the Science Explorers Club of AECS\, Staff Club of RRCAT and HBNI sch
 olars are invited to the screening.\nEpisode Brief: 'The Cassini–Huygens m
 ission commonly called Cassini\, was a collaboration between NASA\, the Eu
 ropean Space Agency (ESA)\, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a p
 robe to study the planet Saturn and its system\, including its rings and n
 atural satellites. The spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini probe\, an
 d ESA's Huygens lander which landed on Saturn's largest moon\, Titan. Cass
 ini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its 
 orbit. The craft were named after astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christi
 aan Huygens.\nLaunched on October 15\, 1997\, Cassini was active in space 
 for nearly 20 years\, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn\, studying the p
 lanet and its system after entering orbit on July 1\, 2004. The voyage to 
 Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999)\, Earth (August
  1999)\, the asteroid 2685 Masursky\, and Jupiter (December 2000). Its mis
 sion ended on September 15\, 2017\, when Cassini's trajectory took it into
  Saturn's upper atmosphere and it burned up in order to prevent any risk o
 f contaminating Saturn's moons\, which might have offered habitable enviro
 nments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft. The mission is 
 widely perceived to have been successful beyond expectation. Cassini-Huyge
 ns has been described by NASA's Planetary Science Division Director as a '
 mission of firsts'\, that has revolutionised human understanding of the Sa
 turn system\, including its moons and rings\, and our understanding of whe
 re life might be found in the Solar System.\nCassini's original mission wa
 s planned to last for four years\, from June 2004 to May 2008. The mission
  was extended for another two years until September 2010\, branded the Cas
 sini Equinox Mission. The mission was extended a second and final time wit
 h the Cassini Solstice Mission\, lasting another seven years until Septemb
 er 15\, 2017\, on which date Cassini was de-orbited to burn up in Saturn's
  upper atmosphere.\nThe Huygens module traveled with Cassini until its sep
 aration from the probe on December 25\, 2004\; it was landed by parachute 
 on Titan on January 14\, 2005. It returned data to Earth for around 90 min
 utes\, using the orbiter as a relay. This was the first landing ever accom
 plished in the outer Solar System and the first landing on a moon other th
 an our own.\nAt the end of its mission\, the Cassini spacecraft executed t
 he 'Grand Finale' of its mission: a number of risky passes through the gap
 s between Saturn and Saturn's inner rings. The purpose of this phase was t
 o maximize Cassini's scientific outcome before the spacecraft was disposed
 . The atmospheric entry of Cassini ended the mission\, but analyses of the
  returned data will continue for many years.' (Source-Wikipedia)\n \nregar
 dsDr. Sendhil Raja S.(In-charge\, Science Discovery Club) https://www.rrca
 tstaffclub.in/events/rrcat/event/229-science-movie-night
DTSTART:20181116T133000Z
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LOCATION:Vikram Sarabhai Hall\, RRCAT Convention Centre (Unnamed Road\, RRC
 AT\, Indore\, Madhya Pradesh 452013\, India)
SUMMARY:Science Movie Night
URL:https://www.rrcatstaffclub.in/events/rrcat/event/229-science-movie-nigh
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