3 March
1997: On 3 March 1997, ESA announced that its Huygens probe was ready to be shipped to the United States.
02 FEB. 2005
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1977: On 10 March 1977, the rings of Uranus were discovered from Earth.
This was done with stellar occultation experiments made when Uranus occulted (passed in front of) a star and it was noticed that there were dips in the brightness of the star before and after it passed behind the body of Uranus.
These data suggest that Uranus was surrounded by at least five rings. Four more rings were suggested by subsequent occultation measurements from Earth, and two additional ones were found by Voyager 2, bringing the total to 11.
Direct observations of the rings from Earth had not been possible, because the rings are lost in the planet's glare as seen through terrestrial optical telescopes. Most of the rings are not quite circular, and most are not exactly in the plane of the planet's equator.
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1 March
1966: On 1 March 1966, the Soviet Venera 3 became the first spacecraft to land on the surface of Venus.
28 February
2002: On 28 February 2002, ESA's Envisat satellite was launched.
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