{"id":369439,"date":"2017-09-05T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=65816c3ddc09f220299d0486abd20b54"},"modified":"2017-09-05T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:04:00","slug":"cassini-huygens-historic-adventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=369439","title":{"rendered":"Cassini-Huygens: Historic adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCassini-Huygens was launched on 15 October 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter nearly 13 years in orbit around Saturn, the international Cassini-Huygens mission is going through its final chapter: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is performing a series of daring dives between the planet and its rings, leading to a dramatic final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere on 15 September. \n<\/p>\n

\nOn 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe, which hitched a ride to the Saturn system attached to Cassini during the seven-year voyage, entered the history books by descending to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humanity’s first successful attempt to land a probe on another world in the outer Solar System.\n<\/p>\n

\nHuygens made a 21-day solo cruise toward the haze-shrouded moon. Plunging into Titan’s atmosphere, the probe touched down safely on Titan’s frozen surface. \n<\/p>\n

\nHuygens provided a stream of data representing a unique treasure trove of in situ <\/i>measurements from the planet-sized satellite which scientists are still mining today. \n<\/p>\n

\nThis video recalls the ‘one of a kind’ journey of Huygens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cassini-Huygens was launched on 15 October 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n

After nearly 13 years in orbit around Saturn, the international Cassini-Huygens mission is going through its final chapter: NASA’s Cassini spacecr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375782,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369439\/revisions\/375782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}