Facts about Cassini-Huygens Mission

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   Cassini-Huygens used gravity assists from Venus, Earth, and Jupiter to gain enough speed to reach Saturn without requiring an impractically large rocket.

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   A collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency, Cassini-Huygens was one of the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built.

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   During its Saturn mission, Cassini-Huygens discovered that the moon Enceladus has active geysers erupting water ice and vapor from its southern polar region.

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   Launched in 1997, Cassini-Huygens spent 13 years orbiting Saturn before NASA intentionally plunged the spacecraft into the planet's atmosphere in 2017.

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   The Cassini-Huygens mission successfully delivered the Huygens probe to Titan's surface in January 2005, marking the first landing in the outer solar system.

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