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Cassini-Huygens in Saturn's orbit

by

S.Numazawa/APB/Novapix

Reference

e-son15-00010

Date

2006-12-15

Artist concept of Cassini-Huygens during the Saturn Orbit Insertion maneuver. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched on October 15 1997. Huygens landed on Titan on January 14 2005 near the Xanadu region ; Cassini is placed into Saturn orbit since July 1st 2004.