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July 16, 2004

Aura Spacecraft Finally Flies

Mission: To Better Understand the Air We Breathe

Aura, a mission dedicated to the health of Earth's atmosphere, successfully launched today at 0301:59 Pacific Time from the Western Range of Vandenberg Air Force Base (CA) aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Spacecraft separation occurred at 4:06 a.m. Pacific Time, inserting Aura into a 705-kilometer (438-mile) orbit.

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Cassini Exposes Saturn's Two-Face Moon

From JPL... The moon with the split personality, Iapetus, presents a perplexing appearance in the latest images snapped by the Cassini spacecraft.

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