Cassini Timeline: NASA Mission to Saturn Ahead of Grand Finale Death Dive. ... Huygens departure for Titan, 2004. The surface of Titan as seen from Huygens as it landed on the moon.

Cassini-Huygens Historic ... July 30, 2024. The European Space Agency recalls the historic landing on the Saturn moon and the mission that made it possible. Credit ... A timeline of tuition ...

This Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, the long and successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons will come to an end when the spacecraft plunges into Saturn's cloud tops.

8.4K. Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter the planet Saturn, NASA’s flagship mission to the ringed planet, Cassini, is entering the final two ...

On 23 January 2000, Cassini-Huygens performed an unexpected flyby of asteroid 2685 Masursky – an encounter mission controllers used to help further calibrate Cassini-Huygens’s cameras ...

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft showed us a new view of the Saturn system. But it took a long road to get there, from mission development to its launch 25 years ago.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sept. 15, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will complete its remarkable story of exploration with ...

All in all, more than 5,000 people from 17 countries worked on the Cassini-Huygens mission in some capacity. Cassini has logged 4.9 billion miles, captured 453,048 images and resulted in the ...

Cassini’s mission was to investigate Saturn and its system, while Huygens’ was to explore Titan, the planet’s largest moon. The Huygens probe separated from Cassini in late December 2004.

For in depth coverage of Huygens at Titan and the Cassini mission, including the first sounds from an alien moon, visit The Planetary Society’s website at or call on Society experts for inter… ...

Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a "death dive" into the ... Cassini, NASA's 13-Year Saturn Mission, Has Ended. September 15, 2017 / 10:49 AM ...