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What space probes visited Saturn?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

That is actually and interesting question, or at least interesting to me, because I am a huge space nerd. I don't mean to state the obvious, but if you're talking about a probe landing on the surface of Saturn, that isn't possible, because there is no surface. Saturn is a gas planet, like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, which means they are actually huge balls of gas held together by their own gravity. It would be simply impossible to actually be on Saturn. However, you probably mean a probe or satellite getting in Saturn's orbit, that is a completely different story. In 1997, a probe called the Cassini-Huygens was launched from Earth. They were actually technically two different probes; Cassini carried the Huygens probe with it to Saturn, and is observing Saturn and its moons to this day. The Huygens probe was made to land on Saturn's moon Titan. In case you've never heard if it, Titan is a relatively large moon with an atmosphere greater than Earth's and was completely mysterious to scientists until 2004, which was a good enough reason to send a probe for them. I tend to go to far with these things, but long story short, Cassini-Huygens is the probe sent to Saturn.

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