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...CASSINI ORBITER: AN OVERVIEW
...billion miles away from Earth, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is bearing down on SATURN. Much of our knowledge of that planet dates from Voyager 1's close encounter in 1980, which TIME chronicled in a cover story...
...Cassini division 5,000-mile gap discovered by astronomer Gian Cassini...
...Huygens probe will be released by Cassini on Christmas Eve 2004 and will reach Titan three weeks later. It carries a camera and five sensors, all of which must work fast. Three hours after entering Titan's airspace, the probe will run out of power...
Saturn's moons The Saturnian system has 31 known moons. During its 76 orbits, Cassini will fly by nine of them. Planet-size Titan, with its organic atmosphere, will be visited at least 45 times...