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Cassini-Huygens spacecraft crossing Saturn's rings

by

Steven Hobbs/Novapix

Reference

e-son15-00011

Date

2009-06-17

The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft makes a dangerous journey through Saturn's debris filled ring plane before entering orbit around the planet. Cassini-Huygens was launched from the earth on october 15 1997 and is orbiting Saturn system from july 1st 2004.