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Cassini–Huygens (/ k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
Huygens (/ ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / HOY-gənz) was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), launched by NASA, it was part of the Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made. [3]
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 ...
Cassini–Huygens: Cassini: 15 October 1997 [2] Titan IV(401)B Centaur-T [18] NASA: Orbiter Successful Huygens: ESA: Titan lander Successful Entered orbit 1 July 2004. First probe to orbit Saturn. Discovered seven new moons. Hyugens probe became the first
Diagram of an RTG used on the Cassini probe. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG), sometimes referred to as a radioisotope power system (RPS), is a type of nuclear battery that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect.
On July 4, 2014, the Cassini science team announced that the proximal orbits of the probe would be named the "Grand Finale". [9] This would be immediately preceded by a gradual shift in inclination to better view Saturn's polar hexagon , and a flyby of Enceladus to more closely study its cryovolcanism . [ 10 ]
As Cassini makes the final rounds of Saturn on its roughly 20-year mission, the spacecraft has maneuvered into position over Titan to explore Ligeia Mare, the second-largest methane sea on the ...
A joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, Cassini–Huygens proved a very successful mission. [112] The Cassini probe flew by Titan on October 26, 2004, and took the highest-resolution images ever of Titan's surface, at only 1,200 km (750 mi), discerning patches of light and dark that would be invisible to the human eye. [36]