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Saturn; Cassini’s Excellent Adventure

Saturn About nine times Earth’s diameter 95 times as massive as Earth 1.4 billion kilometers (900 million miles) from Sun Orbits Sun in 29.5 years Largest moon is Titan (5100 km), 7 others km, 52 smaller moons

Saturn as Seen from Earth

First Visit to Saturn: Pioneer 11, 1979

Pioneer 11 View of Saturn’s Rings

Early Voyager Photograph

Not as Exciting as Jupiter

Detail of Saturn’s Rings

Saturn Seen From Beyond

Mimas

Enceladus

Dione

Titan

Crescent Titan

Iapetus

Cassini

This is Rocket Science Launch: October 15, 1997 Venus Flyby April 26, 1998 Venus Flyby June 24, 1999 Earth Flyby August 18, 1999 Jupiter Flyby December 30, 2000 Saturn Orbit Insertion July 1, 2004 Huygens Probe Separation Dec. 24, 2004 Titan Landing January 14, 2005

Saturn From Cassini

Crescent Saturn

Behind Saturn

Rings and Shadow

Ripply Rings

Making Waves

Saturn’s South Pole

Storms in Saturn’s Far North

The North Polar Hexagon

“Saucer” Moons

Hyperion

Phoebe

Iapetus By Saturn-Shine

Iapetus Ridge

Enceladus

Enceladus up close and Personal

Dione and Rhea

Saturn, Titan, Enceladus

Dione and Saturn’s Rings

Titan’s Haze

Surface of Titan

Aerial View of Titan

Surface of Titan

Lakes on Titan

Titan’s Largest Sea

Sun Glint off Liquid

Boris Smeds: The Hero of Huygens