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Saturn: Cassini’s Excellent Adventure

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 300-1500 km, 52 smaller moons. Saturn as Seen from Earth.

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Saturn: Cassini’s Excellent Adventure

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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

  21. Behind Saturn You Are Here

  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

  34. Enceladus

  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

  42. Aerial View of Titan

  43. Surface of Titan

  44. Lakes on Titan

  45. Titan’s Largest Sea

  46. Boris Smeds: The Hero of Huygens

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