{"id":4899,"date":"2019-09-03T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/192.243.16.62\/?page_id=4899"},"modified":"2019-09-03T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:31:04","slug":"cassinihuygens_eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mdscc.nasa.gov\/index.php\/en\/past-missions\/cassinihuygens_eng\/","title":{"rendered":"CassiniHuygens_eng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cassini Huygens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"n2-section-smartslider fitvidsignore \" data-ssid=\"25\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Slider\"><div id=\"n2-ss-25-align\" class=\"n2-ss-align\"><div class=\"n2-padding\"><div id=\"n2-ss-25\" data-creator=\"Smart Slider 3\" 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The spacecraft contributed to studies of Jupiter for six months in 2000 before reaching its destination, Saturn, in 2004 and starting a string of flybys of Saturn&#8217;s moons. That same year it released the Huygens probe on Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan to conduct a study of the moon&#8217;s atmosphere and surface composition. 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