Cassini-Huygens: Historic adventure
Cassini-Huygens was launched on 15 October 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.After nearly 13 years in orbit around Saturn, the international Cassini-Huygens mission is going through its final chapter: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is performing a series of daring dives between the planet and its rings, leading to a dramatic final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere on 15 September.
On 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe, which hitched a ride to the Saturn system attached to Cassini during the seven-year voyage, entered the history books by descending to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humanity’s first successful attempt to land a probe on another world in the outer Solar System.
Huygens made a 21-day solo cruise toward the haze-shrouded moon. Plunging into Titan’s atmosphere, the probe touched down safely on Titan’s frozen surface.
Huygens provided a stream of data representing a unique treasure trove of in situ measurements from the planet-sized satellite which scientists are still mining today.
This video recalls the ‘one of a kind’ journey of Huygens.
More about Cassini-Huygens:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens
Great Work ESA!!!!!!!
Absolutely amazing and groundbreaking!
Bye Cassini!😯😯😯😯
Awesome, thanks ESA 👍👍🚀
great stuff
When will Cassini Crash? Will there be a Livestream somehow?
I always one day liked the idea of humans colonising Titan in the future, and using wing suits to fly around instead of walking or using vehicles.
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Such an amazing adventure 🙂
Im sad that cassini ends will come soon. For a long time we will not get daily fresh images from saturn and there moons. If you guys like to see here you can watch daily fresh raw images from cassini: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/raw-images?order=earth_date+desc&per_page=50&page=0
That's how we roll gg esa
Haha dat accent jean jaques
I guess we've created the perfect song for this week's final end-of-mission event: "Cassini – She's in Everyone of Us", https://youtu.be/PR8do0QJcdI