12. What is Cassini? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

Cassini is an international mission that was conceived in the 1980s, and begun in 1990, to launch a spacecraft to the planet Saturn and put it in orbit. The spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn in the summer of 2004 and has been returning images and information ever since.

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Answer provided by Carolyn Porco, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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