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Celebrating the first images taken by the NASA Mars Rover Opportunity. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.


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The Cassini spacecraft will fly close to Saturn 76 times and visit its moon Titan 45 times. The Huygens probe will have the closest view of Titan, and Titan will be the most distant object from Earth ever to be studied by a probe!


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