Cassini-Huygens was a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency to explore Saturn, launched on 15 October 1997 from Cape Canaveral on a Titan IV rocket. The craft consisted of the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens probe, which was built by the European Space Agency. After using gravity assists from Venus, Earth and Jupiter, it entered orbit around Saturn in July 2004. In January 2005 Huygens landed on Titan, the planet's largest moon, the first landing on a body in the outer solar system. Cassini found geysers on Enceladus, lakes of methane on Titan and detailed structure in the rings. The mission ended in September 2017, when the orbiter was deliberately plunged into Saturn's atmosphere.
Before and after
- 15 September 1997Google Search
- 23 September 1997Release of Yandex
- 2 October 1997Amsterdam Treaty
- 10 October 1997Founding of GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
- 15 October 1997Launch of Cassini−Huygens
- 15 October 1997Launch of Huygens
- 18 October 1997Construction of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- 1 November 1997Release of Titanic
- 3 December 1997Ottawa Treaty
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