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The cassini mission is a cooperative project of nasa esa the european space agency and the italian space agency. Four robotic spacecraft have visited saturn.
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Saturns moon enceladus is a small icy body but cassini revealed this ocean world to be one of the solar systems most scientifically interesting destinations.
Nasa science solar system exploration saturn. Nasas pioneer 11 provided the first close look in september 1979. Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have ringsmade of chunks of ice and rockbut none are as spectacular or as complicated as saturns.
Although rare spectacular storms can erupt on saturn and like jupiter winds blow nearly constantly at hundreds of miles per hour. Our scientists and hardworking robots are exploring the wild frontiers of our solar system. Key points cassini discovered that geyser like jets spew water vapor and ice particles from an underground ocean beneath the icy crust of enceladus.
Saturn took shape when the rest of the solar system formed about 45 billion years ago when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become this gas giant. The angry eye of a hurricane like storm appears dark red while the fast moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. The rings are generally about 30 feet 10 meters thick or so and are almost completely composed of billions if not trillions of chunks of water ice ranging in size from smaller than a grain of sand to the size of a mountain.
The jet propulsion laboratory a division of the california institute of technology in pasadena manages the mission for nasas science mission directorate washington. Nasajplspace science institute the largest saturnian moon titan is the second largest in the solar system. Nasas dawn spacecraft is maneuvering to its lowest ever orbit for a close up examination of the inner solar systems only dwarf planet.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest planet in our solar system. New orbit new opportunities observations of ceres have detected recent variations in its surface revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change. This spectacular vertigo inducing false color image from nasas cassini mission highlights the storms at saturns north pole.
Nasas twin voyager 1 and voyager 2 spacecraft followed up with flybys nine months apart in 1980 and 1981. Along with saturn and its moons the rings are one of the three primary components of the saturn system. Nasas real time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration.
About 4 billion years ago saturn settled into its current position in the outer solar system where it is the sixth planet from the sun.
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