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Cassini-Huygens was launched at 4:43 am EDT from Space Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
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Gravitational-assist flyby
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Gravitational-assist flyby
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Occured at 03:28 UTC.
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Occured around 10:00 UTC
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Dark "belts" and light "zones"
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Cassini scientists announced the results of tests of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, conducted using radio waves. The test refined the accuracy to aproxamentally one in 50,000
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Methone is discovered
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Pallene is discovered
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First detailed images of Pheobe
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The Cassini scientists announced the new rotational period of Saturn which is no 6 minutes longer
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Cassini becomes first spacecraft to orbit Saturn
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First detailed glimpses of moon
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The probe starts its 21 days decent towards Titan
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End of first year
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The European Space Agency's Huygens probe decended through Titan's atmosphere.
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Daphnis is discovered in the Keeler gap
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Only visit during primary mission
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First Solar Occulation
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Non-targeted
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Radio science flyby
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First Radio Science bistatic and occulation observation
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Non-targeted
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Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph and RADAR observations
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Second Radio Science bistatic observation
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CIRS observation
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Cassini gets rotated out of orbit in the ring plane by Titan
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Non-targeted
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Cassini saw the Sun as it passed behind Saturn and the rings.
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Non-targated south pole
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UVIS stellar occulation, INMS atmosphere sniffing, surface exploring RADAR
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Second of four coordinated radio science flyby
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Rare flyby geometry enabled detailed sampling of Titan's atmosphere
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RADAR Synthertic Aperture Radar Imager observations
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer records a stellar occulation of Gamma Cru as it passed behind Titan
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Cassini reached an inclanation of almost 59 degrees
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RADAR image of surface
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Imaging Science Subsystem color mosaic image of Saturn from top
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Low altitude flyby. Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer sniffed Titan's atmosphere to determine composition and thermal structure
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Radio Science Subsystem observed pole to pole eocculation
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RADAR continues to fill in surface gaps
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A return to Aaru
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Finishes tour of the Fensal/Aaru regions
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Repeate RSS occulation experiments
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High-Gain Antenna is used as an umbrella to sheild Cassini as it passes through an area of increased ring particle concentration
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Second of two flybys
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High-Gain Antenna is used as an umbrella to sheild Cassini as it passes through an area of increased ring particle concentration
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Third of four coordinated Radio Science flybys
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RSS bistatic observations
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RSS conducted experiment
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Higer resolution imaging of the surface in images of Huygens landing site
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Highresolution observations
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Cassini skimed the top of the moon's atmosphere aswell as RADAR SAR observation of the southern hemisphere
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INMS took samples of the moons upper atmosphere
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Last of four coordinated Radio Scienceflybys exploring theinterior of Titan looking for an internal ocean
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RADAR passed over the region called ON=ntario Lacus in the southern hemisphere
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Cassini celebrates its 100th orbit periapsis
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Saturn went through solar Equinox as the Sun crossed from the southern hemisphere to the north.
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2,300,000 km
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South to North
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North to South
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2,300,000 km
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