<body bgcolor="#ffffff"><table width="602" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" bgcolor="#000000" style="background-color: black;"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#000000" style="background-color: black;"><tr><td><a href="http://jpl.nasa.gov"><img src="http://jpl.convio.net/images/jpl/First_Light.jpg" alt="First Light, e-newsletter of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-color: white;"><tr><td><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 80%" face=Arial><P class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 80%" face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">November 2002</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong><EM>Welcome to the premier issue of the new monthly e-newsletter from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</EM></strong></SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN class=subheading><FONT face=Arial size=5><FONT face=Arial size=5>Cassini:  Bring Your Tray Table to an Upright Position</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><IMG alt=Saturn src="http://jpl.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/10021.jpg" align=right border=0>NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn is getting to an exciting phase.  After looping around the inner solar system for several years to build up enough momentum to fly outward from the Sun, Cassini is now within range to take pictures of Saturn as it makes its final approach to the planet over the coming year and a half.</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Cassini team released an image taken in late October when the craft was 285 million kilometers (177 million miles) from the planet.  The picture shows the shadow of the planet falling across its famous rings and includes Saturn's largest moon, Titan.  More details are on the <U><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=TtYPVvwm0NlO-3BCLCXxIg.."><U>Cassini home page</U></A></U>.</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><strong><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It's Flyby Time</SPAN></FONT></strong><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><IMG alt=Stardust src="http://jpl.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/10020.jpg" align=left border=0></SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Not one but two NASA robotic spacecraft are executing flybys this month, making scientific observations of bodies in the solar system as they zoom past.  On Saturday, November 2, the Stardust spacecraft will pass within about 3,000 kilometers (about 1,900 miles) of asteroid Annefrank (the event occurs Friday evening in North American time zones).  An advance look at the flyby is available in our <U><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=9EwhjFWvX3BO-3BCLCXxIg.."><U>news release</U></A></U>, or from the <U><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=d3FiTRG9pg9O-3BCLCXxIg.."><U>Stardust home page</U></A></U>.</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The venerable Galileo spacecraft, meanwhile, will add to the record book for its long-lived mission at Jupiter with another first, a flyby of the giant planet's small moon Amalthea on Tuesday, November 5.  The orbiter will pass about 160 kilometers (99 miles) above Amalthea's cratered surface -- barely more than half the length of this egg-shaped moon.  More details are in our <U><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=_-lbHirG5MxO-3BCLCXxIg.."><U>news release</U></A></U> or the <U><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=WZjsJ-0yimZO-3BCLCXxIg.."><U>Galileo home page</U></A></U>.</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 80%"><strong><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 80%" face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Webcast:  Robots in Space</SPAN></FONT></strong></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br /><br /></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><IMG alt="Concept of robots on Mars" src="http://jpl.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/10024.jpg" align=right border=0>"Rise of the Machines:  Intelligent Robots and Space Exploration" will be the topic of the November talk in JPL's von Karman Lecture Series, offered locally in Pasadena, California, and broadcast live via the web on Thursday, November 21, at 7 p.m. Pacific.  The speaker will be Dr. Richard Terrile, program scientist for JPL's Mars Scout program.  You can <U><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=2ALYOaALb7tO-3BCLCXxIg.."><U>view the webcast live</U> </A></U>or access the archive later if you miss it.</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal align=center><strong><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><EM>Cool Links</EM></SPAN></FONT></strong><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=aCH6VOJr7KhO-3BCLCXxIg.."><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong><IMG alt=spacerocks src="http://jpl.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/10022.jpg" align=left border=0>Keeping an Eye on Space Rocks </strong></SPAN></FONT></A><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> (requires Flash 6)</SPAN></EM></SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=TmivguT6m_FO-3BCLCXxIg.."><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Amateur Night in Space</strong></SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">                   <A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=jhevCJz9-XFO-3BCLCXxIg.."><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>New Mars Fun Zone</strong></SPAN></FONT></A> (Including 3-D Rover Game)</SPAN></FONT><br /><P class=MsoNormal><br /><P class=MsoNormal align=center><strong><U><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This Month in Space History</SPAN></FONT></U></strong><br /><UL>[*]<br /><DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Surveyor 6 lands on the Moon (11/11/67)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><br /><br />[*]<br /><DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mariner 9 becomes first spacecraft to orbit another planet (11/14/71)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><br /><br />[*]<br /><DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Voyager 1 flies by Saturn (11/12/80)</SPAN></FONT></DIV></UL><br /><P class=MsoNormal align=center><strong><U><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">October Highlights<IMG alt="Spore and detector" src="http://jpl.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/10023.jpg" align=right border=0></SPAN></FONT></U></strong><br /><UL>[*]<br /><DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What's it like to work at NASA?  Our web video series <A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=hGVOl-rApLZO-3BCLCXxIg..">First Person</A> finds out.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><br /><br />[*]<br /><DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Spore detectors:  check out the </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=KGGJoZ9XQ41O-3BCLCXxIg..">news release</A>, </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=eQ3ZCScogdxO-3BCLCXxIg.."><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">profile</SPAN></FONT></A> and </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=NJqUMvaZ5f1O-3BCLCXxIg.."><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">video</SPAN></FONT></A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><br /><br />[*]<br /><DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=5h_fiRMKM-NO-3BCLCXxIg..">Global Surveyor</A> takes one of the highest-resolution images of Mars.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></UL><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br /></SPAN></FONT><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> <br /><P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </FONT>[]http://jpl.convio.net/site/PixelServer?j=VGCOCxCSeWxO-3BCLCXxIg.." height="1" width="1[/]</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br /> <br /> <small>[ 03. 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