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

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Huygens is in the center, gold-colored. credit Photo: Associated Press / Paul Kizzle A Titan IV-Centaur rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Oct. 15, 1997, carrying the Cassini-Huygens ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a four-year study of Saturn. The 18 highly sophisticated science instruments will study Saturn's rings, icy satellites, magnetosphere and Titan, ...

Cassini-Huygens was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 15 October 1997, atop a Titan 4B/Centaur, the most powerful expendable launch vehicle in the US fleet at the time.

Cassini the mothership; Huygens the lander. On Oct. 15, 1997, the $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a joint endeavor among NASA, ...

Once freed from Cassini, the Huygens probe will remain dormant until the onboard timer wakes it up shortly before the probe reaches Titan's upper atmosphere on Jan. 14.

Cassini-Huygens was an unprecedented foray into the unknown. It was not our first close-up glimpse of Saturn — the Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 probes had zipped by the planet in 1979 ...

HUYGENS PROBE: Spacecraft is 8.9 feet in diameter and 705 pounds (317 kg). Will be released from Cassini on Dec. 24 and enter Titan's atmosphere on Jan. 14. MISSION COST : $3.3 billion, shared by ...

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.

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 ...