ESA Science & Technology - High Ambitions for an Outstanding Planetary Mission: Cassini-Huygens

Publication date: 15 November 2004

Authors: Lebreton, J.-P. et al.

Journal: ESA Bulletin
Volume: 120
Page: 10-21
Year: 2004

Copyright: ESA

Cassini-Huygens, named after the two celebrated scientists, is the joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission to Saturn and its giant moon Titan. It is designed to shed light on many of the unsolved mysteries arising from previous observations and to pursue the detailed exploration of the gas giants after Galileo's successful mission at Jupiter. The exploration of the Saturnian planetary system, the most complex in our Solar System, will help us to make significant progress in our understanding of planetary system formation and evolution, which is also a key step in our search for extra-solar planets.