| Name |
Date |
Event |
| Cassini-Huygens launches |
10.15.97 |
Cassini-Huygens launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida |
| Cassini Captures Saturn Image |
02.27.04 |
The camera aboard the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft sent its best color postcard back to Earth of the ringed world. |
| Two Storms On Saturn |
04.08.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft caught two storms in the act of merging into one larger storm on the ringed planet. |
| Saturn Seen From Far and Near |
05.26.04 |
Both Cassini and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope snapped spectacular pictures of the planet and its magnificent rings. |
| Spacecraft Prepares To Ring Saturn |
05.27.04 |
NASA and European Space Agency officials will discuss the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission next Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT. |
| Cassini-Huygens Mission Status Report |
05.28.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six-minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27 to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11. |
| Cassini-Huygens Will Unlock Saturn's Secrets |
06.03.04 |
The international Cassini-Huygens mission is poised to begin an extensive tour of Saturn, its majestic rings and 31 known moons. |
| Cassini Spacecraft Near First Stop in Historic Saturn Tour |
06.09.04 |
The most complex interplanetary mission ever launched is about to meet one of the solar system's enigmatic moons. |
| Cassini Makes Close Observations of Phoebe |
06.12.04 |
With its flyby of Phoebe, the Cassini spacecraft has completed the first satellite flyby in its four-year tour of the Saturn system. |
| Cassini's Flyby Shows a Moon With a Battered Past |
06.12.04 |
First images from Cassini's flyby of Phoebe reveal it to be a scarred, cratered outpost with a very old surface. |
| Phoebe's Surface Reveals Clues to Its Origin |
06.14.04 |
Images from Cassini's flyby of Phoebe show evidence that the tiny object may contain ice-rich material, overlain with a thin layer of darker material. |
| Mission Status Report: Now on Final Approach |
06.17.04 |
After completing a successful trajectory correction maneuver on Wednesday, the Cassini spacecraft is now on its final approach to Saturn. |
| Cassini Opens a Cosmic Time Capsule |
06.23.04 |
Like a woolly mammoth trapped in Arctic ice, Saturn's small moon Phoebe may be a frozen artifact of a bygone era, some four billion years ago. |
| Getting Closer to Titan |
06.25.04 |
Irregular bright and dark regions of yet unidentified composition and character are becoming increasingly visible on Titan's surface as Cassini approaches. |
| Scientists Find That Saturn's Rotation Period is a Puzzle |
06.28.04 |
On approach to Saturn, data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft are already posing a puzzling question: How long is the day on Saturn? |
| Cassini Spacecraft at Saturn's Doorstep |
06.29.04 |
Saturn is now a day away for the Cassini spacecraft, a seasoned traveler that began its journey nearly seven years ago. |
| Cassini Set to Ring Saturn Today |
06.30.04 |
After nearly seven years of asking, "Are we there yet?" the Cassini-Huygens mission is poised to enter Saturn's orbit this evening. |
| Cassini Spacecraft Arrives at Saturn |
06.30.04 |
The international Cassini-Huygens mission has successfully entered orbit around Saturn. |
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| Fresh Cassini Pictures Show Majesty of Saturn's Rings |
07.01.04 |
Detailed images of Saturn's rings are only some of the rewards after nearly seven years of space travel. |
| Cassini Exposes Puzzles About Ingredients In Saturn's Rings |
07.02.04 |
Just two days after the Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn orbit, preliminary science results are already beginning to show a complex and fascinating planetary system. |
| Cassini Provides New Views of Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon |
07.02.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed surface details of Saturn's moon Titan and imaged a huge cloud of gas surrounding the planet-sized moon. |
| Cassini Spacecraft Emerged |
07.12.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft emerged from behind the Sun today after being in solar conjunction since July 5. |
| Cassini Exposes Saturn's Two-Face Moon |
07.15.04 |
The moon with the split personality, Iapetus, presents a perplexing appearance in the latest images snapped by the Cassini spacecraft. |
| Titan's Purple Haze Points to a Fuzzy Past |
07.29.04 |
Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken on July 3, 2004, one day after Cassini's first flyby of that moon. |
| Saturn's Rings Offer a Fresco of Color |
07.22.04 |
With shimmering pinks, hues of gray and a hint of brown, a newly released image of Saturn's rings resembles a fresco where nature is the painter. |
| Saturn's Shadow and Titan's Glow Shed Light on a Complex System |
08.05.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft, has detected lightning and a new radiation belt at Saturn, and a glow around the planet's largest moon, Titan. |
| Two New Moons at Saturn |
08.16.04 |
With eyes sharper than any that have peered at Saturn before, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed planet. |
| Cassini on Course for Titan Flyby |
08.23.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a 51-minute engine burn that will raise its next closest approach distance to Saturn by nearly 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles). |
| Cassini Reveals Saturn's Cool Rings |
09.02.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft has taken the most detailed temperature measurements to date of Saturn's rings. |
| Cassini Discovers Ring and One, Possibly Two, Objects at Saturn |
09.09.04 |
Scientists examining Saturn's contorted F ring, which has baffled them since its discovery, have found one small body, possibly two, orbiting in the F ring region, and a ring of material associated with Saturn's moon Atlas. |
| Strings of Shadowy Rings Drape Saturn |
09.16.04 |
Saturn's ring shadows appear wrapped in a harmonious symphony with the planet in this color view from the Cassini spacecraft. |
| First Close Encounter of Saturn's Hazy Moon Titan |
10.25.04 |
Long hidden behind a thick veil of haze, Titan, the only known moon with an atmosphere, is ready for its close-up on Oct. 26, 2004. |
| Cassini Successfully Flies By Titan |
10.26.04 |
The Cassini spacecraft beamed back information and pictures tonight after successfully skimming the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. |
| Cassini Peeks Below Cloud Shroud Around Titan |
10.27.04 |
Early analysis of images and other data captured during last night's close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft reveals greater surface detail than ever before and shows that Titan has lost much of its original atmosphere over time. |
| Cassini's Radar Shows Titan's Young Active Surface |
10.29.04 |
The first radar images of Saturn's moon Titan show a very complex geological surface that may be relatively young. |
| Radar Image Shows Titan's Surface Live and in Color |
11.05.04 |
Saturn's moon Titan shows a sharp contrast between its smooth and rough edges in a new false-color radar image. Titan's surface lies beneath a thick coat of hazy clouds, but Cassini's radar instrument can peer through to show finer surface features. |
| Cassini Radar Sees Bright Flow-Like Feature on Titan |
11.09.04 |
A strikingly bright feature that is consistent with an active geology has been seen in one of Cassini's first radar images of Saturn's moon Titan. |