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1226 Mar 4 |
Jupiter and Saturn appeared as one bright planet in the night sky. This did not happen again until Dec 21, 2020. Links: Saturn, Astronomy, Jupiter 
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1623 Jul 16 |
A conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was virtually impossible to see on Earth because of its apparent position near the sun. Links: Saturn, Astronomy, Jupiter
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1655 Mar 25 |
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch inventor and astronomer, discovered Titan, Saturn's largest satellite. Links: Netherlands, Saturn, Astronomy, Inventor
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Christiaan Huygens interpreted Saturn’s “ears” as a simple flat ring. Links: Netherlands, Saturn, Astronomy, Inventor
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1977 Aug 20 |
The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. It was scheduled to pass Jupiter and Saturn. Links: USA, NASA, Saturn, Jupiter, Language
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1979 Sep 1 |
Pioneer 11 made the 1st fly-by of Saturn and discovered new moon rings. Ring F of Saturn was discovered by Lonny Baker at NASA's Ames Research Center from data sent by Pioneer 11. Links: NASA, Saturn, Space
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1980 Nov 12 |
The US space probe Voyager 1 came within 77,000 miles of Saturn. Links: USA, NASA, Saturn, Space
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1981 Aug 25 |
The US spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet and its moons. Links: NASA, Saturn, Space
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1989 Nov 12 |
A triple conjunction of Neptune and Saturn took place. Links: Saturn, Neptune
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1997 Oct 13 |
The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to be launched aboard a Titan rocket from Cape Canaveral for a trip to end in 2004 at Saturn. It will carry the Huygens probe to be deployed on the Saturn moon Titan. It was postponed. Links: NASA, Saturn
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1997 Oct 15 |
NASA's plutonium-powered Cassini spacecraft rocketed flawlessly toward Saturn. The $3.3 billion Cassini-Huygens Mission was scheduled to arrive on July 1, 2004. Links: NASA, Saturn
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1998 Apr 8 |
It was reported that Europe’s Infrared Space Observatory discovered water around stars and planets. Water vapor in the atmosphere of Titan was reported. Links: Saturn, Astronomy
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2004 Jun 11 |
The Cassini spacecraft flew within 1,285 miles of Phoebe, one of the outer moons of Saturn. Links: NASA, Saturn
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2004 Jun 30 |
The Cassini probe entered Saturn’s orbit for 4 years of explorations. Its 4-year mission included a close approach to Saturn’s 3rd moon Iapetus. Links: NASA, Saturn
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2004 Jul 1 |
The Cassini spacecraft sent back photographs of Saturn's shimmering rings. Links: NASA, Saturn
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2004 Oct 26 |
Spacecraft Cassini flew within 745 miles of Titan providing scientists with new images of the Saturn largest moon. Links: NASA, Saturn, Space
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2004 Nov 6 |
The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to launch its Huygens probe onto Titan. [see Dec 24] Links: Saturn, Space
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2004 Dec 24 |
The Huygens space probe was fired from the international Cassini spacecraft into a successful free fall from Saturn’s orbit to its moon, Titan. Links: Saturn, Space
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2005 Jan 13 |
The European-built space probe Huygens entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Links: Saturn
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2005 Jan 14 |
The European space probe Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan, sending back images of what scientists were calling the strangest landscape in the solar system. Pictures showed a pale orange surface covered by a thin haze of methane and what appears to be a methane sea complete with islands and a mist-shrouded coastline. Links: Saturn, Space
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2005 Nov 30 |
After almost a year of research into data from the space probe Huygens, scientists reported that Saturn's moon Titan resembles Earth in many ways but is unlikely to support life. Links: Saturn, Space
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2006 Mar 9 |
Scientists reported that images from the Cassini spacecraft showed plumes of water shooting from fissures near a heated region of Enceladus, a 300-mile wide moon of Saturn. Links: NASA, Saturn, Space
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2007 Mar 1 |
NASA said the Cassini spacecraft has snapped never-before-seen images of Saturn showing the planet from perspectives above and below its ring system. Links: NASA, Saturn, Space
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2007 Mar 13 |
Scientists reported the discovery of what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, with one about as big as Montana. Links: Saturn, Titan
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2008 Mar 26 |
Scientists said the basic ingredients for life: warmth, water and organic chemicals, are in place on Saturn's small moon Enceladus, in detailing the content of huge plumes erupting off its surface. Links: Saturn
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2009 Jun 25 |
Scientists reported new evidence that one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, has an ocean beneath its surface. Links: Saturn
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2009 Oct 6 |
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said the Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn. The diffuse ring doesn't reflect much visible light and is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it. Links: NASA, Saturn
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2009 Oct 7 |
Pedro Elias Zadunaisky (b.1917), Argentine astronomer and mathematician, died. His calculations helped determine the orbit of Saturn's outermost moon, Phoebe, as well as Halley's Comet. Links: Argentina, Saturn, Astronomy, Asteroid
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2015 Mar 11 |
Scientists reported that evidence from the Cassini spacecraft has indicated there might be hot springs under the ice of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn. Links: Saturn
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2016 Sep 26 |
The Hubble spacecraft discovered further evidence of a subsurface ocean of liquid water on Jupiter's moon Europa. Days later a group of scientists announced that Saturn's moon Dione may also have a subsurface ocean. Their results are published in the journal Geophysical Review Letters. Links: Saturn, Space
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2017 Apr 27 |
NASA said its unmanned Cassini spacecraft has survived its plunge between the rings of Saturn and, after briefly going dark for the flyby, is communicating again with Earth. Links: USA, NASA, Saturn
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2017 Sep 15 |
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, launched in 1997, burned up in a fiery dive into Saturn, where it had been circling since 2004. Links: USA, NASA, Saturn
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2019 Oct 7 |
The Carnegie Institute for Science announced that 20 new moons have been found around Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 82. This beat Jupiter with its 79 moons. Links: Saturn
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2020 Dec 21 |
Jupiter and Saturn appeared as one bright planet in the night sky. The last time they came this visibly close to each other was in the year 1226. Links: Saturn, Astronomy, Jupiter
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