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Cassini Spacecraft : New Findings

Kumari Sonali

Cassini Spacecraft : New Findings

Findings from data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal the presence of a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas.

  • Cassini-Huygens was a joint NASA, European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency space mission to Saturn.
  • It was launched on October 15, 1997.
  • The mission consisted of NASA’s Cassini orbiter, which was the first space probe to orbit Saturn, and the ESA’s Huygens probe, which landed on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
  • It was one of the largest interplanetary spacecraft.
  • The Cassini orbiter weighed 2,125 kg and was 6.7 metres long and 4 metres   wide.
  • The instruments on board Cassini included radar to map the cloud-covered surface of Titan and a magnetometer to study Saturn’s magnetic field.
  • The disk-shaped Huygens probe was mounted on the side of Cassini.
  • It weighed 349 kg (769 pounds), was 2.7 metres (8.9 feet) across, and carried six instruments designed to study the atmosphere and surface of Titan.

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