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A brief update on the mission

Hopefully you will have realized that a lot of time has passed since the Cassini mission was launched in 1999. How old were you when that happened? The mission has been very successful in gathering important data for scientists to study.

Look at this photo of Saturn's rings, and see if you can find the two moons it shows. One is easy, but the other is a dark dot, and harder to see.

 

Read this news report - note the date! This will tell you what happened to the Huygens probe.

 

Here is what will be happening in 2005 - it is a list of the moons that Cassini will be flying past:

And here is a summary of the highlights of 2005:

 


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