Education

PPARC Cassini Huygens education pack - KS2-5.
Colour leaflets, worksheets and teachers' notes, which link the mission to key stages 3, 4 and A-level Physics curricula. Updated pack including KS2 material released Spring 2004.

BNSC Learning Zone: Saturn - KS2-3
Information about Saturn, quiz and "Frogger" style game, plus print-out resources sheet.
Lesson plan for key stages 2 and 3
Lesson plan relating to the BNSC Learning Zone content.

Saturn in your kitchen and backyard
Developed by JPL for American grades 5-8 (ages 10-14). Classroom activities about the science and engineering behind the Cassini mission.

Reading, writing and rings (from January 2004)
Developed by JPL for American grades K-4 (Ages 5-9). Literacy programme linked to Cassini and Saturn.

Images

JPL Cassini Huygens image gallery
200+ images of Cassini, Huygens, Saturn, Saturn's moons, mission launch and Jupiter flyby.

ESA Huygens image gallery
Includes 50+ images of Huygens, Cassini, Saturn and Titan.

NASA Planetary Photojournal
Images of Saturn, its rings and moons.

Animations

JPL Cassini Huygens Videos
Includes 30+ animations of spacecraft construction, launch, flybys, Saturn insertion and Titan landing.

ESA
6 MPEG animations of Huygens' descent and Cassini's arrival at Saturn.
Huygens clips from ESA TV archive.

Max Planck Institute
Animations showing how the Cosmic Dust Analyser works.

BBC Space
Animation showing Saturn and its rings.

Models

Huygens
1:4 and 1:2 scale models available from the Open University PSSRI for short-term loan. Contact: Louise Hobbes

Computer models
High-resolution CAD drawings of the Surface Science Package. Contact: James Garry

Books

Lifting Titan's Veil
By Ralph Lorenz & Jacqueline Mitton. Published by Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521793483

Mission to Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe
By David M Harland. Published by Praxis Pr. ISBN: 1852336560

Speakers

UK goes to the Planets can provide experienced speakers for specialist and non-specialist audiences and for school groups. For speakers on Cassini, Huygens, Saturn, or the search for life in the Solar System contact UK Goes to the Planets Co-ordinator, Anita Heward.