Cassini Probe Begins Two-Year Follow-On Mission

NASA’s nuclear-powered Cassini probe to Saturn is moving into a two-year-long follow-on mission that will give the spacecraft’s science team an opportunity to study Saturn’s rings with sunlight passing directly across their plane during the Saturn equinox in August 2009. Dubbed the Cassini Equinox...

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