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    CassiniHuygens (/kəˈsiːni ˈhɔɪɡənz/ kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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    This article provides a timeline of the CassiniHuygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA...
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    Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655. The combined CassiniHuygens spacecraft was launched from Earth on 15 October 1997. Huygens separated...
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    the Huygens probe on 25 December 2004. Huygens descended onto the surface of Titan on 14 January 2005. Starting in early 2005, scientists used Cassini to...
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    ISBN 978-1-78521-111-9. Cassini-Huygens at ESA Cassini-Huygens main page Archived December 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at NASA Cassini Mission Homepage...
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    1712 in Paris at the age of 87. Cassini observed and published surface markings on Mars (earlier seen by Christiaan Huygens but not published), determined...
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    Cassini-Huygens mission, an international mission that successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn and deployed the atmospheric Huygens probe...
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    Titan (moon) (category Discoveries by Christiaan Huygens)
    articles) CassiniHuygens Mission To Saturn and Titan. Multimedia Feature Titan Virtual Tour Video of Huygens’ descent from the ESA Cassini Imaging Central...
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    surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This was confirmed by the CassiniHuygens space probe, as had been suspected since the 1980s. The large bodies...
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  • via the international Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. The story begins with the Cassini Saturn spacecraft releasing the Huygens Titan probe. The scene...
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    Io (moon) (section Cassini)
    radiation centered on Io's orbit. Further observations have been made by CassiniHuygens in 2000, New Horizons in 2007, and Juno since 2017, as well as from...
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    launched CassiniHuygens, a pair of probes sent to Saturn. It was the only use of a Titan IV for a non-Department of Defense launch. Huygens landed on...
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    discussion of the RTGs used on the Cassini-Huygens mission. Nuclear Power in Space (PDF) Detailed report on Cassini RTG (PDF) Detailed lecture on RTG fuels...
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    Iapetus (moon) (category Discoveries by Giovanni Domenico Cassini)
    after Christiaan Huygens spotted Titan 16 years prior in 1655; and the sixth extraterrestrial moon to be discovered in human history. Cassini discovered Iapetus...
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    Rhea (moon) (category Discoveries by Giovanni Domenico Cassini)
    Before the CassiniHuygens mission, it was assumed that Rhea had a rocky core. However, measurements taken during a close flyby by the Cassini orbiter in...
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    Masursky until the CassiniHuygens space probe, en route to Jupiter and Saturn, flew past it on 23 January 2000. Because Cassini passed the asteroid...
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    that New Horizons launched, but was reclassified as a dwarf planet. CassiniHuygens also flew past Jupiter for a gravity assist on its mission to explore...
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  • anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong. 2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of CassiniHuygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC. 2006 – The first operation...
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    Voyager mission in 1981, and was later revisited by Cassini-Huygens in 2006. During the Cassini mission, the hexagon changed from a mostly blue color...
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    from those on Earth. In June 2010, scientists analyzing data from the CassiniHuygens mission reported anomalies in the atmosphere near the surface which...
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  • and European Space Agency employee, noted for detecting a flaw in Cassini-Huygens space mission. Smeds was born in Uppsala and received his Licentiate...
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    Tethys (moon) (category Discoveries by Giovanni Domenico Cassini)
    including Pioneer 11 (1979), Voyager 1 (1980) and Voyager 2 (1981), with Cassini-Huygens observing the moon the most, and in greatest detail, during its extensive...
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    study the outer planets, like the Juno mission to Jupiter and the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. Concurrently, JPL also began to focus on Earth science...
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    157V. ISBN 92-9092-997-9. "Cassini-Huygens". European Space Agency. Retrieved 13 April 2022. L, H (1907). "Christiaan Huygens, Traité: De iis quae liquido...
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  • background. The album artwork was inspired by photographs from the CassiniHuygens space research mission to study the planet Saturn and its system. Particular...
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    which formed an extended foundation of knowledge about the system. The CassiniHuygens spacecraft, launched in 1997, was in orbit from 2004 to 2017. A list...
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    Enceladus (section Cassini)
    September 20, 2017. Lorenz, Ralph (2017). NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens: 1997–2017: (Cassini orbiter, Huygens probe and future exploration concepts : owners'...
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    casting of shadows on the rings. Christiaan Huygens began grinding lenses with his father Constantijn Huygens in 1655 and was able to observe Saturn with...
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    an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph). NASA launches the CassiniHuygens probe to Saturn. October 16 – The first color photograph appears on...
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  • 2005. Christiaan Huygens (1659). "Systema Saturnium". The Hague: Adriani Vlacq. p. 47 – via Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Cassini, Giovanni D.; Découverte...
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