Saturn Secrets

On September 15, 2017, our farthest camera was ordered to swerve from its orbit and die falling through Saturn's atmosphere. But I'd like to think tha...
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On September 15, 2017, our farthest camera was ordered to swerve from its orbit and die falling through Saturn's atmosphere. But I'd like to think that the Perfect Probe had managed to land safely, and in spite of all science, now lives well in its new World. It surely deserves it!

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The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
( https:--en.wikipedia.org-wiki-Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens )

A joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency, or ESA, and the Italian Space Agency, Cassini launched in 1997 along with ESA's Huygens probe. The spacecraft contributed to studies of Jupiter for six months in 2000 before reaching its destination, Saturn, in 2004 and starting a string of flybys of Saturn's moons. That same year it released the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan to conduct a study of the moon's atmosphere and surface composition. In its second extended mission, which went through 2017, Cassini made the first observations of a complete seasonal period for Saturn and its moons.
( https:--www.jpl.nasa.gov-missions-cassini-huygens- )
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