Cassini transported Huygens on their journey from Earth to Saturn. Cassini’s mission was to investigate Saturn and its system, while Huygens’ was to explore Titan, the planet’s largest moon.

Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

Cassini transported Huygens on their journey from Earth to Saturn. Cassini’s mission was to investigate Saturn and its system, while Huygens’ was to explore Titan, the planet’s largest moon.

For a moment four years ago, the spacecraft Cassini watched Earth from 900 million miles away. The probe had ducked behind Saturn. There, shielded from the sun’s rays, the robot turned its de… ...

Cassini-Huygens was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ... Earth (August 1999) and Jupiter (December 2000). Last night, Cassini-Huygens approached Saturn from below the plane of its rings.

Cassini and Huygens revealed Titan as a through-the-looking-glass version of Earth. Its surface temperature of -179C means that liquid hydrocarbons take up many of the roles played by water on our ...

At that time, the Cassini orbiter will reorient its main antenna dish toward Earth in order to play back the data collected by Huygens, which will be received by NASA's 70-m diameter antenna in ...

On July 19, 2013, the Cassini-Huygens mission took a composite image of Saturn's rings, with Venus, Mars, Earth and the moon in the background — and people on Earth waved at the distant camera.

The Huygens probe transmitted sound to Earth from farther away in the solar system than any spacecraft ever had before. Below, explore a collection of intriguing noises from the Cassini-Huygens ...

Cassini-Huygens The history and discoveries of the Saturn probe May 23, 2007 ... But even with the best telescopes there is only so much of Saturn you can see from the Earth.

The Cassini spacecraft spent 13 years exploring the Saturn system. In 2005, it deployed a probe, known as Huygens, to the surface of Titan. Here is a selection of science highlights from the ...