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SATURN
& TITAN FROM CASSINI-HUYGENS!!!
After a seven-year trip, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn arrived at the ringed world and has been sending back amazing and wondrous information, revealing previously unsuspected facts.
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Click here for the exciting and amazing news from Titan, the
extraordinarily Earth-like world now revealed for the first
time!
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Click here for NASA's mission page with links to multimedia features, photos and news updates on "the spacecraft's close encounter with Saturn."
»Through the Ring Plane - a Quicktime movie that puts you there. Click here...
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Find Saturn in the Sky - for kids, but useful for adults like
us!
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Mission Summary
Primary Mission: Four-year tour to study Saturn, its rings, moons and magnetosphere
Launch: October 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Arrival at Saturn: July 1, 2004 (Eastern time)
Distance Traveled: 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion km)
Huygens probe Titan descent: January 14, 2005 |
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