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      • Giovanni Cassini Giovanni Cassini produced his first lunar map in 1679 based on his observations at the Paris Observatory. Very few copies were made of the large map, but a smaller version was first published in 1692 in advance of a total eclipse of the Moon.
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  2. 3 days ago · Cassini is the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever constructed by NASA. It measures 6.8 m in length with a 4 m high gain antenna. At launch the spacecraft had a mass of 5,655 kg, of which 3,132 kg were propellant. Cassini is three-axis stabilized.

  3. 3 days ago · The telescope is undoubtedly the most important investigative tool in astronomy. It provides a means of collecting and analyzing radiation from celestial objects, even those in the far reaches of the universe. Two of Galileo's first telescopes; in the Museo Galileo, Florence. Galileo revolutionized astronomy when he applied the telescope to the ...

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    2 days ago · In March 1665, he published his findings and from them, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini calculated the rotation period of Jupiter to be nine hours and fifty-five minutes. [93] One of the most-challenging problems Hooke investigated was the measurement of the distance from Earth to a star other than the Sun. Hooke selected the star Gamma ...

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  5. 2 days ago · Comments (5) On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. Endeavour was the fifth and last space shuttle that was ever built, and STS-49 was the first of 25 missions ...

  6. 3 days ago · Tethys (on the left) and Dione (on the right) were both discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini (the man whom the spacecraft was named after) on March 21, 1684. They are very close in size to one another. Tethys, which is closer to Saturn, has a diameter of approximately 1,060 km (658 mi).

  7. 3 days ago · He introduced Nicolaas Hartsoeker to French scientists such as Nicolas Malebranche and Giovanni Cassini in 1678. The young diplomat Leibniz met Huygens while visiting Paris in 1672 on a vain mission to meet the French Foreign Minister Arnauld de Pomponne.

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