Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

This is going to be the next big project coming from JPL/Nasa and the European Space Agency. In 40 days (from this point), Cassini will encounter a small satellite called "Phoebe." Phoebe is on the outer reaches of the Saturn system and appears as a tiny, irregular dot that was photographed once during the Voyager 2 mission. This time we'll get a full flyby as Cassini soars towards Saturn. Roughly 20 days later, Cassini will lodge itself in the Saturn system and begin it's mission that I've been waiting for almost 10 years now. The big thing to check out, obviously, will be the Huygens probe which will be deployed in January and descend into the atmosphere of the satellite Titan. Because we've only received scant images of this cloud obscured moon, I find the situation to be extremely exciting with the prospect of such a foreign world finally coming into view. Ground images using radio techniques and other methods have brought some additional hints in these later years of what Titan might appear like on the surface. Are there oceans of liquid methane? We can't tell because of the thick atmosphere. However, this time we will be able to. The other thing to ask is if having the Cassini probe be more focused on the Saturn system this time around, will it be possible to obtain better resolution through it's own eyes whenever it passes by Titan? Of all the moons in the solar system, I just find this one the most intriguing.