Saturnian Grooves | NASA's Cassini Mission
Planet Saturn's rings can appear similar to the grooves of a vinyl record. The first 12-inch, 33-revolutions per minute (RPM) record was produced by the American company Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1948. Twelve-inch albums could hold an album’s worth of songs on each side. They arrived on the market when the postwar entertainment industry was booming. Consumers were ready to buy these 12-inch LP (long-play) records. They quickly became the industry standard. Instead of the hard shellac that 78s were made from, 12-inch LPs consisted of polyvinyl carbonate, the material that gives vinyl records their name.
https://thesoundofvinyl.us/blogs/vinyl-101/the-history-of-vinyl-records
NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived in the Saturn system in 2004 and ended its mission in 2017 by deliberately plunging into Saturn's atmosphere. This method was chosen because it is necessary to ensure protection and prevent biological contamination to any of the moons of Saturn thought to offer potential habitability.
The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project of NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter. The Cassini radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the U.S. and several European countries.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini
Processing: Kevin M. Gill
Image Dates: Nov. 4, 2006-Aug. 19, 2009
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