This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA... 51 KB (4,260 words) - 05:15, 27 October 2023 |
Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655. The combined Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched from Earth on 15 October 1997. Huygens separated... 52 KB (5,463 words) - 03:46, 9 April 2024 |
Saturn (section Cassini–Huygens spacecraft) 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... 117 KB (10,355 words) - 09:17, 27 April 2024 |
Titan (moon) (category Discoveries by Christiaan Huygens) articles) Cassini–Huygens Mission To Saturn and Titan. Multimedia Feature Titan Virtual Tour Video of Huygens’ descent from the ESA Cassini Imaging Central... 173 KB (16,576 words) - 05:09, 21 April 2024 |
Exploration of Saturn (section Cassini orbiter) which formed an extended foundation of knowledge about the system. The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft, launched in 1997, was in orbit from 2004 to 2017. A list... 14 KB (1,372 words) - 10:58, 2 April 2024 |
Titan IV (section Cassini–Huygens launch) launched Cassini–Huygens, 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... 36 KB (3,237 words) - 07:32, 11 April 2024 |
via the international Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. The story begins with the Cassini Saturn spacecraft releasing the Huygens Titan probe. The scene... 22 KB (2,213 words) - 08:55, 5 November 2023 |
2685 Masursky (section Cassini–Huygens flyby) Masursky until the Cassini–Huygens space probe, en route to Jupiter and Saturn, flew past it on 23 January 2000. Because Cassini passed the asteroid... 11 KB (783 words) - 00:47, 16 January 2024 |
Iapetus (moon) (category Discoveries by Giovanni Domenico Cassini) after Christaan Huygens spotted Titan 16 years prior in 1655; and the sixth extraterrestrial moon to be discovered in human history. Cassini discovered Iapetus... 45 KB (4,608 words) - 17:55, 20 April 2024 |
Jean-Dominique de Cassini Cassini's laws on the motion of the Moon Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn Cassini–Huygens, the space mission... 1 KB (212 words) - 05:49, 20 May 2023 |
Flyby (spaceflight) (section Cassini) Cassini-Huygens (launched 1997), which orbited Saturn (from 2004–2017) performed flybys of many of Saturn's moons including Titan. Cassini-Huygen's had... 17 KB (1,578 words) - 01:18, 20 April 2024 |
Pluto was considered a planet at the time that New Horizons launched. Cassini–Huygens also flew past Jupiter for a gravity assist on its Mission to explore... 18 KB (721 words) - 20:30, 8 March 2024 |
Carolyn Porco (section Cassini–Huygens) Cassini-Huygens mission, an international mission that successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn and deployed the atmospheric Huygens probe... 40 KB (4,119 words) - 05:18, 4 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (1,832 words) - 22:26, 6 April 2024 |
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... 49 KB (4,842 words) - 08:19, 7 April 2024 |
largest mountain range on Titan by volume. It was discovered by the Cassini–Huygens probe in 2005 and officially named in 2012. Doom Mons is named after... 11 KB (1,102 words) - 00:40, 10 April 2024 |
from those on Earth. In June 2010, scientists analyzing data from the Cassini–Huygens mission reported anomalies in the atmosphere near the surface which... 37 KB (3,965 words) - 14:35, 1 March 2024 |
S. J.; Matson, D. L.; Spilker, L. J.; Lebreton, J.-P. (2004). "The Cassini–Huygens flyby of Jupiter". Icarus. 172 (1): 1–8. Bibcode:2004Icar..172....1H... 173 KB (16,395 words) - 08:18, 20 April 2024 |
surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This was confirmed by the Cassini–Huygens space probe, as had been suspected since the 1980s. The large bodies... 71 KB (4,689 words) - 10:23, 12 January 2024 |
scales and in atmospheres having different chemical composition. The Cassini–Huygens mission to Titan discovered clouds formed from methane or ethane which... 49 KB (4,787 words) - 04:35, 18 April 2024 |
award Huygens Institute for Dutch History Astronomy: Cassini–Huygens, mission to Saturn and Titan Huygens (spacecraft), the probe of above mission which landed... 2 KB (279 words) - 04:34, 10 December 2023 |