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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 ...
This species is commonly found in the Eastern United States, its range stretching along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas, and north to Kansas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. Adult females are between 7 and 11 mm (0.28 and 0.43 in) in length and males are smaller.
Giovanni [a] Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) [1] mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] near Imperia , at that time in the County of Nice , part of the Savoyard state .
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Cassini sent home one last batch of photos from Saturn before plunging to its death Friday and among them was an attempt to record a mysterious object embedded in the planet's rings, otherwise ...
During planning for its extended missions, various future plans for Cassini were evaluated on the basis of scientific value, cost, and time. [3] [7] Some of the options examined included collision with Saturn atmosphere, an icy satellite, or rings; another was departure from Saturn orbit to Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, or a centaur.
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A press release on February 3, 2009, showed a sixth new moon found by Cassini. The moon is approximately 500 m (0.3 mi) in diameter within the G-ring of the ring system of Saturn, and is now named Aegaeon (formerly S/2008 S 1). [78] A press release on November 2, 2009, mentions the seventh new moon found by Cassini on July 26, 2009.