Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn - NASA
WEBCassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons – in particular Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity – remain pristine for future exploration.
Cassini–Huygens - Wikipedia
WEBCassini–Huygens (/ kəˈsiːniˈhɔɪɡənz / kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn
WEBSep 13, 2017 · Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons – in particular Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity – remain pristine for future exploration.
Cassini, the mission that revealed Saturn | The Planetary Society
WEBThe mission launched in 1997, flying past Venus and Jupiter on its way to Saturn. It arrived in orbit in 2004, and thanks to three mission extensions it spent 13 years revolutionizing our understanding of the system.
Cassini-Huygens | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
WEBOct 15, 1997 · Cassini-Huygens takes a six-month swing by Jupiter to pick up speed for its journey to Saturn and collaborates with NASA's Galileo spacecraft to study the Jovian system. Launch and mission info for NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission exploring Saturn and its system of moons.
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn
WEBSep 15, 2017 · Cassini finished its tour of the Saturn system with its Grand Finale, capped by Friday’s intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons – particularly Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity – remain pristine for future exploration.
Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory : The Two-Way - NPR
WEBSep 15, 2017 · On its way to the sixth planet, Cassini set about a circuitous course, swinging by Venus twice to get a gravity assist that shot it back past Earth and onward to Jupiter before a final...
Rings Revealed: How Cassini's Saturn Odyssey Exceeds Expectations
WEBSep 12, 2017 · Scientists recall the exciting ways in which the pioneering Cassini spacecraft mission to study Saturn — the planet, its rings and moons — has exceeded all expectations.
Cassini Spacecraft Starts Weaving Between Saturn And Its Rings
WEBApr 26, 2017 · NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its first dive between Saturn and its rings early Wednesday, as the final act in a nearly 20-year mission.
NASA Cassini Spacecraft Arrives At Saturn - SpaceNews
WEBJul 1, 2004 · During Cassini’s four-year mission, it will execute 52 close encounters with seven of Saturn’s 31 known moons. The first images are expected to return Thursday morning.
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