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Water, weather, new worlds: Cassini mission revealed Saturn's secrets

  • Written by Dan Reisenfeld, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Montana
imageSaturn and its rings backlit by the sun, which is blocked by the planet in this view. Encircling the planet and inner rings is the much more extended E-ring.NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, CC BY

Cassini is the most sophisticated space probe ever built. Launched in 1997 as a joint NASA/European Space Agency mission, it took seven years to journey...

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