Cassini–Huygens (/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 Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA...
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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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Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655. The combined Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched from Earth on 15 October 1997. Huygens separated...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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award Huygens Institute for Dutch History Astronomy: Cassini–Huygens, mission to Saturn and Titan Huygens (spacecraft), the probe of above mission which landed...
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that New Horizons launched, but was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Cassini–Huygens also flew past Jupiter for a gravity assist on its mission to explore...
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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...
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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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Rhea (moon) (category Discoveries by Giovanni Domenico Cassini)
Before the Cassini–Huygens 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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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...
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it has some resonance with the exploration of the Saturn system by Cassini–Huygens. We can't say that our participating scientists include heroes like...
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Rings of Saturn (redirect from Cassini Division)
ringlets within the Cassini Division, however, are unexplained. Discovered in 1981 through images sent back by Voyager 2, the Huygens Gap is located at...
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from those on Earth. In June 2010, scientists analyzing data from the Cassini–Huygens 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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background. The album artwork was inspired by photographs from the Cassini–Huygens space research mission to study the planet Saturn and its system. Particular...
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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...
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Glenn Research Center in Ohio. In early 2005, studies conducted by the Cassini-Huygens probe revealed an abundance of organic compounds in Titan’s atmosphere...
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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...
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