After a seven-year journey on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe was released on 25 December 2004. It reached the upper layer of Titan’s atmosphere on 14 January 2005 and ...

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The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and data on the system ever taken. This included Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...

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, 1980, ...

Saturn's moon Titan is covered by "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of scientists have said after a week of research into data from the space probe Huygens. "We've got a ...

As the Huygens probe prepared to plunge into the atmosphere of Titan, the scientists at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, kept warning the packed auditorium full of ...

The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six-minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27th to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn’s outermost moon Phoebe, set for June ...

We can learn a great deal about Doppler shift and the tools available to communications system developers by recreating critical parts of the Cassini-Huygens mission using today’s innovations in ...

At 1.25 billion km from Earth, after a 7-year journey through the Solar system, ESA's Huygens probe is about to separate from the Cassini orbiter to enter a ballistic trajectory toward Titan, the ...

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The Cassini-Huygens mission increased our understanding of the planet’s rings and moons Aaron Boorstein - Staff Contributor One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance, ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission blasted off 10 years ago this week, with the goal of putting a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning ...