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 Mission Type
Mission Type (category) Mission Type (category) Mission Type (category)Robotic / Uncrewed Mission 1 Connections
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Cassini, Spacecraft Cassini is the NASA-built Saturn orbiter component of this joint mission.
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Source Cassini-Huygens - NASA Science
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Titan, Celestial Objects The Huygens probe landed on Titan in January 2005.
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Operated By
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ASI contributed the high-gain antenna and radar instruments to the Cassini orbiter.
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Wikimedia FoundationCassini-Huygens, Overview section
NASA's Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, described Cassini-Huygens as a 'mission of firsts' that revolutionized human understanding of the Saturn system.
- Cassini-Huygens, lead section
- Operated By: Italian Space Agency, Cassini-Huygens, lead section; Italian Space Agency, lead section
- Includes: Huygens, Wikipedia: Cassini-Huygens, lead section
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Associated With: Saturn, Mission to Saturn section
Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study Saturn and its complex system of rings and moons in unprecedented detail.
Associated With: Enceladus, Science at Saturn section, Enceladus image caption
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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