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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)

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1 Saturn; Cassini’s Excellent Adventure

2 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 300-1500 km, 52 smaller moons

3 Saturn as Seen from Earth

4 First Visit to Saturn: Pioneer 11, 1979

5 Pioneer 11 View of Saturn’s Rings

6 Early Voyager Photograph

7 Not as Exciting as Jupiter

8 Detail of Saturn’s Rings

9 Saturn Seen From Beyond

10 Mimas

11 Enceladus

12 Dione

13 Titan

14 Crescent Titan

15 Iapetus

16 Cassini

17 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

18 Saturn From Cassini

19 Crescent Saturn

20 Behind Saturn

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22 Rings and Shadow

23 Ripply Rings

24 Making Waves

25 Saturn’s South Pole

26 Storms in Saturn’s Far North

27 The North Polar Hexagon

28 “Saucer” Moons

29 Hyperion

30 Phoebe

31 Iapetus By Saturn-Shine

32 Iapetus Ridge

33 Enceladus

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35 Enceladus up close and Personal

36 Dione and Rhea

37 Saturn, Titan, Enceladus

38 Dione and Saturn’s Rings

39 Titan’s Haze

40 Surface of Titan

41 Aerial View of Titan

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43 Surface of Titan

44 Lakes on Titan

45 Titan’s Largest Sea

46 Sun Glint off Liquid

47 Boris Smeds: The Hero of Huygens


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