The Cassini-Huygens mission is an unprecedented $3.3 billion ... "This data is for posterity," said David Southwood, director of science for ESA. "It's for mankind. ... Scientists are going ...

ESA has had help. Plenty of American know-how is at work on Huygens too. For one thing, the probe is hitching a ride to Saturn on a NASA spacecraft named Cassini (after Renaissance Italian ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

another principal objective of the Cassini-Huygens mission is to study the chemical and mineralogical composition of the planet's moons using the spectrometers onboard the Cassini probe (and in the ...

"Nasa is responsible for the Cassini part of the spacecraft; ESA is responsible for the Huygens probe, which travelled down through the atmosphere of Titan." Q. When did the mission first start ...

And that they were able to pick up from Earth, it turns out. And then Cassini used it to lock onto Huygens. You can do one critical piece of science with the carrier signal alone and that is ...

Then Christiaan Huygens added the ringed planet Saturn to the list by discovering its largest moon, Titan. Since then, 47 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, 15 of which have been discovered ...