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The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
View of Saturn from Cassini, taken in March 2004, shortly before the spacecraft's orbital insertion in July 2004. This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA, the European Space Agency ("ESA"), and the Italian Space Agency ("ASI") to send a probe to study the Saturnian system, including ...
Missions to Saturn face competition from missions to other Solar System bodies. The Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) was a joint NASA/ESA proposal for an exploration of Saturn and its moons [10] Titan and Enceladus, where many complex phenomena have been revealed by the recent Cassini–Huygens mission.
Cassini flew by Venus for a first gravity assist en route to Saturn. [51] [107] Venus 24 June 1999 618 days (1 yr, 8 mo, 10 d) Cassini flew by Venus for a second gravity assist en route to Saturn. Asteroid 2685 Masursky: 23 January 2000 831 days (2 yr, 3 mo, 9 d) Cassini flew by Masursky en route to Saturn. Jupiter 30 December 2000 1173 days (3 ...
1979 – Pioneer 11 flies by Saturn, providing the first ever closeup images of the planet and its rings. It discovers the planet's F ring and determines that its moon Titan has a thick atmosphere. [199] 1979 – Goldreich and Tremaine postulate that Saturn's F ring is maintained by shepherd moons, a prediction that would be confirmed by ...
Musgraves was 35 when she released her sixth album, Deeper Well, but the album’s title track references the prior decade of her life.“My Saturn has returned,” she sings.“When I turned 27 ...
The fully processed composite photograph of Saturn taken by Cassini on July 19, 2013 Earth can be seen as a blue dot underneath the rings of Saturn. The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled.
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