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Cassini-Huygens Mission
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A joint NASA, European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency mission combining NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter with ESA's Huygens probe. Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan in January 2005, the first landing achieved in the outer Solar System. The mission concluded in September 2017 with Cassini's deliberate atmospheric entry into Saturn to protect potentially habitable moons from contamination.
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Mission TypeRobotic outer planet orbiter and lander mission 1 OutcomeSuccessful; studied the Saturn system for thirteen years and returned the first landing data from the outer Solar System via Huygens, before Cassini's controlled entry into Saturn's atmosphere in September 2017. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Cassini, Spacecraft Cassini is the NASA-built Saturn orbiter component of this joint mission.
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ASI contributed the high-gain antenna and radar instruments to the Cassini orbiter.
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