Saturn: NASA's Cassini-Huygens Exploration Reveals Astonishing Ringed Planet With Glacial Whirlpool, Multiple Moons

By Aloha Rose Baldovino, | February 14, 2017

A joint space mission between NASA, Europe's Space Agency, and Italy's Space Agency sent the Cassini Spacecraft to Saturn back in 1997. (

A joint space mission between NASA, Europe's Space Agency, and Italy's Space Agency sent the Cassini Spacecraft to Saturn back in 1997. (

NASA's Cassini-Huygens space voyage has sent astonishing pictures sent back to Earth. On Valentine's Day, February 14, a complex fusion of 21 pictures of the beautiful planet Saturn. The planet boasts of rings, whirlpool of glaciers on its polar vortex, and moons.

According to Live Science, a joint space mission between NASA, Europe's Space Agency, and Italy's Space Agency sent the Cassini Spacecraft to Saturn back in 1997. This year 2017, 20 years after it was launched marks the final and last leg of the spacecraft's exploratory orbit around Saturn. The success of this joint undertaking is well documented in accurate and detailed photos. These lovely photos were published online titled "Valentine's Day In Space: Cosmic Love Photos" in time for the Valentine's Day celebration.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cassini-Huygens, is considered to be one of the largest and ambitious space mission ever launched. The spacecraft is fully loaded with highly advanced and powerful devices and cameras to record accurate data and photos of the ringed planet including its moons, regardless of the differences in the light's spectrum and atmospheric settings. One astounding finding is the discovery of liquid water under the surface of one of "Saturn's" moon, Enceladus, revealing that it could potentially support life.

Cassini-Huygens space mission will finally end by September 2017. To commemorate this happy and fruitful ending, NASA will launch "Cassini Inspires,' a promotional campaign in celebration of the wonders of the planet Saturn, brought before the eyes of humankind. 


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