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Cassini-Huygens nears insertion into Saturn’s orbit

23 June 2004

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Artist's impression of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft closing in on Saturn.

Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA mission. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will orbit Saturn for four years, making an extensive survey of the ringed planet. The ESA Huygens probe will be the first to land on a world in the outer Solar System - on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Data from Cassini and Huygens may offer clues about how life began on Earth.

Credits: ESA

At Saturn and Titan