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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.
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.
The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun , the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system , as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots.
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 ...
The Cassini mission, run by Nasa and other space agencies, already found cracks on the south pole of Enceladus, a moon around Saturn. Plumes containing gas and ice grains spew out of those cracks ...
Cassini became the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it operated from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft's journey to Saturn included flybys of Venus in April 1998 and June 1999, Earth in August 1999, the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter in December 2000. Cassini entered Saturn's orbit on 1 July 2004.
Cassini's laws on the motion of the Moon; Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn; Cassini–Huygens, the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the Cassini orbiter was a part; Cassini (Martian crater) Cassini (lunar crater) 24101 Cassini, an asteroid; 24102 Jacquescassini, another asteroid