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Saturn Mission by Cassini Spacecraft.

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The average radius of our solar system is about 30 trillion kilometers. In the very short history of space exploration, we have found 316 small planets and 6 big planets along with it. But we don't have much knowledge about these planets. All we know is how far they look and how far they are from our planet. Without it we would not know much about all these planets. So Cassini was sent to Saturn to get to know all these planets.

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NASA launched Cassini into space on October 15, 1997. A high-tech object that was as big as a school bus at the time. Which cost about 3 billion dollars to build. The gravitational forces of the three planets were used to achieve the speed required for such a large object to reach Saturn. After traveling about three and a half billion kilometers, Cassini reached the ring of Saturn. Saturn's rings look like gas, but in reality, they are billions upon billions of small boulders and ice cubes. Some of them are very small in size and some are equal to the size of big buildings.

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Cassini reaches out to Saturn and sends us strange and startling images. By studying them, people can discover many new things. For example, scientists at first thought that each of Saturn's rings was probably the same. But from the pictures taken by Cassini, they know that each ring of Saturn is different. At the same time, scientists can find out that the thicker the rings, the older they are. After gravitational measurement, they find that the total mass of Saturn's entire ring is about four hundred trillion tons.

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They also know that Saturn is slowly swallowing its own ball. A shower of water droplets and dust particles from the ring to the surface of Saturn is running all the time. Every second it has swallowed up 45000 kilograms of the ring. Seeing this, scientists have speculated that Saturn's two-ring proximity will end very quickly. However, Cassini's main mission was not to study the ring. His job was to study the planet Saturn and its satellites. Cassini was able to capture a giant storm at Saturn's north pole. It has a diameter of about 32 thousand kilometers and a speed of 150 meters per second.

However, he fulfilled the task for which he was sent. For this mission, we have learned more about Saturn than ever before. But a new space project, the Titan Saturn system mission Already, is being prepared. However, we do not yet know when this project will be launched. But it is expected to be launched before 2029. Just as Cassini traveled to Saturn after launch. That too will cross that path.

Saturn Mission by Cassini Spacecraft. | Ecency