SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Cassini-Huygens was a mission of firsts. First to orbit Saturn. First landing in the outer solar system. First to sample an extraterrestrial ocean.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cassini mission launched in 1997 and spent seven years traveling to Saturn, arriving in 2004. Cassini is the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, and has provided a treasure trove of data and images of the entire Saturnian system.

Detailed explanation-3: -They found that temperatures peak near the auroras, indicating that auroral electric currents heat the upper atmosphere. And both density and temperature measurements together helped scientists figure out wind speeds.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cassini was one of the most ambitious efforts ever mounted in planetary exploration. A joint endeavor of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency), and the Italian space agency (ASI), Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study Saturn and its complex system of rings and moons in unprecedented detail.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cassini-Huygens arrived at Saturn in 2004, dropped the parachuted probe named Huygens to study the atmosphere and surface of Saturn’s planet-sized moon Titan, and orbited Saturn for the next 13 years making remarkable discoveries.

Detailed explanation-6: -The Huygens probe, supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) and named after the 17th century Dutch astronomer who first discovered Titan, Christiaan Huygens, scrutinized the clouds, atmosphere, and surface of Saturn’s moon Titan in its descent on January 15, 2005.

Detailed explanation-7: -Cassini found that much of the material for Saturn’s E-ring-a diffuse ring outside the bright, main rings-comes from the moon Enceladus, which is venting icy particles and gas into space as it orbits Saturn.