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Primary Mission: Four-year tour to study Saturn, its rings, moons and magnetosphere
Launch: October 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Arrival at Saturn: July 1, 2004 (Eastern time)
Distance Traveled: 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion km)
Huygens probe Titan descent: January 14, 2005
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Spotlight on Titan During Recent Cassini Flyby
11.20.07 -- Saturn's moon Titan was backlit by the sun during Cassini's flyby on Nov. 19. Scientists will use data from the flyby to study the density of Titan's atmosphere.
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| | 10.23.07 - Be A Cassini Scientist For A Day
The Ph.D. can wait for a few years! Students can have the fun of being a NASA scientist exploring the universe even before they've finished secondary school by participating in the Cassini Scientist-for-a-Day contest.
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| | 10.15.07 - Inspiring Views Celebrate Cassini's Diamond Anniversary
Ten years ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn.
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| | 10.11.07 - Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Launch
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention.
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| | 10.11.07 - New Views of Titan's Land of Lakes and Seas
Newly assembled radar images from the Cassini spacecraft provide the best view of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, while a new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes.
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Video: News From Saturn
Another close flyby of Titan is next on the agenda for the Cassini spacecraft. Cassini will again dip its toe into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon.
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Backstage Pass to Iapetus
Go backstage as scientists watch in real-time as the closest-ever pictures of Saturn's mysterious moon Iapetus are beamed back by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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What's Up for October?
Views of Saturn's weird moon Iapetus in the night sky may spook the faint hearted but a glimpse of Mars on Halloween will be a treat.
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Video: News From Saturn
How were Saturn's famous rings formed? Cassini is helping scientists look for answers. Plus, upcoming flybys of Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus.
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Video: News From Saturn
Breath-taking views of Saturn's rings, and scenes from the moon Tethys, which has a system of canyon four times as long as Earth's Grand Canyon.
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