Cassini-Huygens
Description
Orbiting the ringed planet Saturn and its numerous moons, the Cassini spacecraft was a keystone of exploration of the Saturnian system and the properties of gaseous planets in our solar system. A joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency, or ESA, and the Italian Space Agency, Cassini launched in 1997 along with ESA's Huygens probe. The spacecraft contributed to studies of Jupiter for six months in 2000 before reaching its destination, Saturn, in 2004 and starting a string of flybys of Saturn's moons. That same year it released the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan to conduct a study of the moon's atmosphere and surface composition. In its second extended mission, Cassini made the first observations of a complete seasonal period ... ...Show More
Identifier (LID)
urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.cassini-huygens
Version
1.3
The team made a major effort to summarize the mission. Volume 1 contains the science component: Mission Overview, Science Objectives and Results while technical information is contained in additional volumes archived at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
Mission Science Highlights and Science Objectives Assessment provides a brief overview of the mission
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MISSION SCIENCE AREAS
Saturn Planet and Atmosphere