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The Cassini Mission at Saturn

Mitchell, Robert T.

The Cassini Mission to Saturn, a joint undertaking by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency, is now at about the mid-point of its planned four-year tour of the Saturnian system. Close encounters with Titan and the smaller icy satellites are occurring on schedule, and observations of these bodies along with Saturn's atmosphe…

Cassini/Huygens at Saturn and Titan

Mitchell, Robert T.

The Cassini/Huygens Project is a joint undertaking between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency to conduct an in-depth exploration of the Saturnian system. The spacecraft consists of an orbiter vehicle and an atmospheric probe which has completed its mission in the atmosphere and on the surface of Titan, the largest moon o…

The Huygens probe—space history in many ways

Lebreton, Jean-Pierre; Schipper, Anne Marie

The European Space Agency's Huygens probe, developed under the prime contractorship of Alcatel Alenia Space, has on the 14th January 2005 arrived at its final destination, Saturn's largest Moon Titan. This event provides a major step in our solar system exploration activities and represents a significant contribution to the exploration of Titan, a…