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Cassini spacecraft at Saturn

by

Joe Bergeron/Novapix

Reference

e-son15-00012

Date

2010-03-06

The great Cassini orbiter, with the Huygens probe still in place, prepares to slip through the ring plane of Saturn. Cassini-Huygens was launched from the earth on october 15 1997 and is orbiting Saturn system from july 1st 2004.