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Detailed explanation-1: -The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA’s Cassini space probe and ESA’s Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017.

Detailed explanation-2: -On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system. On its way, Cassini– Huygens passes Venus (twice), Earth, and Jupiter-arriving at the Saturn system in 2004.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cassini’s long mission enabled us to observe weather and seasonal changes on another planet. Cassini revealed Saturn’s moons to be unique worlds with their own stories to tell. Cassini showed us the complexity of Saturn’s rings and the dramatic processes operating within them.

Detailed explanation-4: -Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) was a Dutch scientist who discovered Saturn’s rings and, in 1655, its largest moon, Titan. Italian Jean-Dominique Cassini (1625-1712) discovered the Saturnian satellites Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione.

Detailed explanation-5: -The objectives of the Cassini-Huygens mission are to analyze the composition and atmosphere of Saturn, investigate Saturn’s rings and several of its moons, and study the planet’s magnetosphere-the region of space that’s influenced by Saturn’s magnetic field.