Cassini-Huygens probe enters Saturn orbit

The Cassini-Huygens probe entered orbit around Saturn June 30 via a maneuver that took the spacecraft through Saturn's rings twice while it gathered the closest measurements ever obtained of the second-largest planet in the solar system. Launched in 1997, the $3 billion mission is the most...

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