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Galileo looks through his telescope and reports a planet with handle like objects on it. Then 1 year later he reports that the handles are gone.
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When Huygens looks at saturn he reports that the handles are not handles at all they are rings. Now the only problem is what they are made of.
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Huggens looks ast saturn again and reports seeing a moon with a hazy outline. At first that was thought to be just the way the telescope made it look but it was actually the atmosphere.
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The fact that saturn is not the only planet with rings is proved. infact all the gas giants have rings though saturn has the the only rings that can be seen easily.
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pioneer 11 reaches saturn and does a flyby and goes on to uranus and neptune. Then onto the empty space.
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Voyager 2 passes saturn and follows voyager 1 into the empty space. if nothing happens to them.
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Te hubble space telascope looks at titan saturns biggest moon and sees a surface under the atmosphere. From then on titan became a moon of secrets.
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cassini raches saturn and starts its mission. the mission is to discover the secrets of saturn.
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huygens sends its rover down into titans atmosphere. what it finds is more intresting. it is a world with cryovolcanoes wicth erypt water, ammonia and methane.
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Cassini finds a moon orbiting the planet of saturn. also with the moon sa new ring.
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cassini mission is expanded from a 4 year mission to a 6. this makes people wonder will it expand again?
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cassini mission goes from a 4 year mission to a 6 and now a 9 year. now to end in 2017.
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When cassini passes reha closly for the last time. if the mission gets expanded it might pass it again.
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Voyager 1 passes saturn takeing images and sending tham back to earth. The one to the left is the most famous.
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The moon Pan is doscoverd near the rings of saturn. oddly its shape is a disk like shape like a UFO.
