The Cassini Huygens mission launched in 1997 with the purpose of studying Saturn and it's Earth like moon Titan. The spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004 where Cassini entered orbit around Saturn. Huygens landed on Titan about one year later. If you've ever looked at Saturn through a telescope it's absolutely spectacular. On a good night you can clearly see the rings and even some of the moons! It almost looks like someone put a scrapbooking sticker of Saturn at the end of the telescope, it's that clear. Cassini giving us an up close and personal look at the planets and it's moons;the image above being one of them. A 2 minute video of images Cassini sent back to Earth is the feature of today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Check it out here
Image credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
