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Cassini-Huygens

After a seven-year voyage that included four gravity-assist maneuvers, Cassini entered Saturn's orbit in July of 2004. It then began a four-year mission that included more than 70 orbits around the ringed planet and its moons. Cassini completed its initial four-year mission to explore the Saturn System in June 2008.
The mission's extension, through September 2010, was named for the Saturnian equinox, which occured in August 2009 when the sun shone directly on the equator and then began to illuminate the northern hemisphere and the rings' northern face. Cassini observed seasonal changes brought by the changing sun angle on Saturn, the rings and moons, which were illuminated from the south during the mission's first four years.
Turning a midsummer night's dream into reality, on September 28, 2010, NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins its new mission extension, the Cassini Solstice Mission. The mission extension will take Cassini a few months past Saturn's northern summer solstice (or midsummer) through September 2017. It will enable scientists to study seasonal changes and other long-term weather changes on Saturn and its moons.

Cassini Orbiter Instruments

CAPS - Cassini Plasma Spectrometer
CDA - Cosmic Dust Analyzer
CIRS - Composite Infrared Spectrometer
INMS - Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer
ISS - Imaging Science Subsystem
MAG - Magnetometer
MIMI - Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument
RADAR - a Radar instrument
RPWS - Radio and Plasme Wave Spectrometer
RSS - Radio Science Subsystem
UVIS - Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
VIMS - Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
SPICE - Navigation and Pointing information

The Imaging Node archives ISS, VIMS and RADAR science data. Visit the Atmospheres Node, lead archiving node for Cassini, for information about archive responsibilities for other instruments.
The Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) consists of two fixed focal length telescopes, a wide-angle camera (WAC) and a narrow-angle camera (NAC). ISS data sets are produced by the Cassini Imaging Team at Space Science Institute, Boulder.
The Radar instrument consists of a synthetic aperture radar imager (SAR), an altimeter, and a radiometer. Radar data sets a produced by the Radar Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer includes a pair of imaging grating spectrometers designed to measure reflected and emitted radiation. The VIMS data sets are produced by the VIMS Team at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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