Orbiting the Lord of the Rings

planets-saturn-smallQUESTION 1: How cool is this? In gravity-breaking around Saturn, the Cassini space probe plunged through the ring plane around the planet (even though it was through a gap).

ANSWER 1: Wicked awesome!

QUESTION 2: How do you top a stunt like that?

ANSWER 2: Drop the Huygens probe to Titan on Christmas!

Read this article to find out what I’m talking about.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."