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Cassini Spacecraft

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Cassini Spacecraft

Saturn orbiter that revealed the ringed planet's secrets/Space Missions

Cassini orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, completing 293 orbits and discovering six new moons. The spacecraft carried the Huygens probe, which landed on Titan. Cassini was deliberately plunged into Saturn's atmosphere at the end of its mission to protect potentially habitable moons.

Measurements

Height6.7 m
1.37Mail truck lengths
3.9 quadrillionProton diameters
223 millionSmoke particles
Width4 m
1.97King size beds
4.71Cricket bats
Launch mass (with fuel)5,712 kg
2.3 billionMosquito weights
197 millionGrains of rice
952 billionthsGreat Pyramid masses
Huygens probe mass349 kg
5.4 billionSand grains
3.5 thousandthsLocomotive weights
43.6Raccoons
High-gain antenna diameter4 m
1.3 tenthsLighthouse heights
3.3 hundredthsSki jump hills
4.7 tenthsLimousine lengths
Mission duration410 million s
410 billionCamera flash durations
16.9Human pregnancies
759,259Snooze alarms

About 13 years

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