Launch: 1997 · NASA/ESA/ASI

Cassini-Huygens — Saturn's Grand Explorer

The most ambitious outer solar system mission ever flown. Cassini spent 13 years in orbit around Saturn, discovering new moons, revealing the complexity of its rings, and finding evidence of a liquid water ocean under Enceladus' icy crust.

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