Humans, Beasts Make Mark on Cassini Cargo
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft carries more than scientific instruments on its journey to Saturn. At NASA’s request, the Planetary Society collected more than 616,400 signatures -- including cat and dog paw prints -- from 81 countries on a DVD. The Huygens probe produced by the European Space Agency also carries a CD containing four musical themes composed by French musicians Julien Civange and Louis Haeri.
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