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Cassini mission celebrates it's 10th birthday
Cassini 10 Years at Saturn BY THE NUMBERS 2. MILLION BILLION COMMANDS MILES TRAVELED Z executed Z since arrival 5148 3039 SCIENCE DATA collected SCIENCE PAPERS published MOONS ( discovered 206 completec 132 FLYBYS of Saturn's moons 332,000 images taken scientists from 26 NATIONS participating 2916urns ENGINE Jet Propulsion Laboratory Califomia Institute of Technology 10 NASA YEARS a SATURN
Cassini mission celebrates it's 10th birthday
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In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft successfully inserted itself into Saturn's atmosphere in order to study the planet, it's rings and inner moons. The craft has many objectives including determining the ...
three-dimensional structure and dynamic behavior of the rings of Saturn and studying the dynamic behavior of Saturn's atmosphere at cloud level. Cassini finished it's primary mission in 2008 and has since been extended twice, to 2010 and again to 2017. A few of Cassini's discoveries include uncovering seven new moons, showing possible lakes of hydrocarbon on Titan and the hurricane on Saturn.
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