Nasa Satellite Into Saturn
For more than a decade nasa s cassini spacecraft shared the wonders of saturn and its family of icy moons taking us to astounding worlds where methane rivers run to a methane sea and where jets of ice and gas are blasting material into space from a liquid water ocean that might harbor the ingredients for life.
Nasa satellite into saturn. Four robotic spacecraft have visited saturn. The two craft took their names from the astronomers giovanni cassini and christiaan huygens. After 13 years of studying saturn and nearly 20 years since it first launched into space nasa s cassini satellite took a death dive into the upper atmosphere of the distant ringed planet and. Nasa s pioneer 11 provided the first close look in september 1979.
For 13 years cassini explored the gas giant and its moons. Nasa s twin voyager 1 and voyager 2 spacecraft followed up with flybys nine months apart in 1980 and 1981. On friday it ended its mission in an. Dragonfly is a nasa mission to deliver a rotorcraft to saturn s moon titan to advance our search for the building blocks of life dragonfly launch moved to 2027 the world s latest ocean monitoring satellite has arrived at vandenberg air force base in california to be prepared for its nov.