Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2014
The Cassini spacecraft arrived in Saturn orbit on July 1st, 2004.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and it took three years and fly-bys of three planets on four occasions to get there, two fly-bys of Venus, one of Earth-Moon system and one of Jupiter, using gravity assist to gather speed.
Cassini-s primary objectives included studying the rings , atmosphere and magnetosphere of Saturn and also studying Saturn's satellites.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and it took three years and fly-bys of three planets on four occasions to get there, two fly-bys of Venus, one of Earth-Moon system and one of Jupiter, using gravity assist to gather speed.
Cassini-s primary objectives included studying the rings , atmosphere and magnetosphere of Saturn and also studying Saturn's satellites.
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| Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech |