The Leonard Lopate Show
Underreported: The Cassini-Huygens Space Mission
The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn is a multinational cooperation between three space agencies and 17 nations, with a total cost of over $3 billion. Launched in 1997, its goal was to orbit Saturn and its moons, and probe the atmosphere of Titan and land on its surface. The spacecraft has provided startling discoveries about Saturn, our solar system, and planet Earth, with more surprises doubtless to come. On today's Underreported, Leonard will speak with two of the mission's teams members about their discoveries: Dr. Carolyn Porco, the leader of the imaging team and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations, and Dr. Torrence V. Johnson, Chief Scientist for the Solar System Exploration Programs Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
To learn more about the mission, visit the Cassini-Huygens homepage
Weigh in: Have you heard much in the media about the Cassini-Huygens space mission?
Slideshow: Cassini Space Mission
Rarley. You hear about the major discoveries, albeit briefly. There was more coverage of the people who protested it's launch due to it's nuclear power system than the whole mission. And an even bigger question...If you want to stay apprised of whats going on, anywhere, how reliant should one be solely on the "media"?
Listening to the show, I have never heard such excitement and enthusiasm for such a project. Although the results of these missions will not bear real fruit until we are all long gone, this is truly an historical moment in space exploration. Like most of what Mr. Lopate brings to us, it is very much appreciated.
Amazingly good shows
Windows 
Windows 
Windows 
Search current and archival WNYC broadcasts. More
Leonard Lopate lets you listen in on the best conversations in New York- now you can take a peek, too. See candid shots of Martha Wainwright, Amy Sedaris and more.
Start your Amazon shopping on WNYC.org and a portion of your total purchase goes to WNYC.
- The Brian Lehrer Show: Buy, Buy Baby (July 07, 2008)
- The Leonard Lopate Show: Underreported: Nurse-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (July 03, 2008)
- The Leonard Lopate Show: The Lyme Disease Epidemic (July 01, 2008)
- The Brian Lehrer Show: Before There was Stephen Colbert, There was George Carlin (July 02, 2008)
- The Leonard Lopate Show: Would You Survive? (July 02, 2008)