Weather concerns have caused NASA to delay the return of space
shuttle Discovery to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 747
and shuttle combination departed from California Friday and spent
the night at Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana.
MAKS -- the biennial Russian International Aviation and Space
Salon -- is being held in Zhukovsky, close to Moscow, from 16 to 21
August. Space exploration has a prominent role at MAKS 2005 as for
the first time the Russian Federal Space Agency, as well as ESA,
are exhibitors.
Cassini Data Says It's Separate From Saturn's Own
Atmosphere
Data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft indicate that
Saturn's majestic ring system has its own atmosphere -- separate
from that of the planet itself. During its close fly-bys of the
ring system, instruments on Cassini have been able to determine
that the environment around the rings is like an atmosphere,
composed principally of molecular oxygen. This atmosphere is
very similar to that of Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede,
according to scientists.
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