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Cassini-Huygens

Agencies: NASA / ESA

Target: Saturn, Titan

Duration: 1997 - 2017

Experiments / function:

- Aerosol analyzer (ACP) / Co-I

- Mass spectrometer (GCMS) / Co-I

- Lightning detector (HASI) / Co-I

- Radio- and Plasmawaves (RPWS) / Co-I

 01.01.1997
This artist's rendering shows the separation of the European Huygens probe from the NASA Cassini mother spacecraft above Titan, Saturn's giant, orange-brown moon. In the background, the planet Saturn can be seen with its distinctive rings, and the star-studded expanse of space.
© ESA