Cassini and Saturn
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With Digital Universe, Emmart and the Hayden Planetarium can take viewers deep into space on interstellar missions. Here, we see a representation of NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its voyage to inspect the moons of Saturn. With the Digital Universe, Emmart has made it possible to zoom in on realistic visual interpretations of true data collected by scientists and then move around them freely as if there was a camera in space around Cassini.
Click here to read the related backstage story on the science behind New York's Hayden Planetarium . And click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.
July 13, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET
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