What Was The Cassini's Mission

The Cassini Spacecraft’s mission was to orbit the planet Saturn. The mission began on October 15, 1997. The 13 year long mission ended on September 15, 2017 with the spacecraft being crashed into Saturn’s surface to avoid polluting one of Saturn’s moons. During the Cassini Mission, Cassini traveled over 4.9 billion miles and managed 162 flybys of Saturn’s moons. Cassini was scheduled to end in 2008, but the mission was doing so well it was extended. Many discoveries were made on Saturn and its moons, including: methane-rich seas, lakes covering approximately two-thirds of the surface of the moon Titan and erupting geysers on Enceladus. It was the first time hydrothermal activity has been discovered outside of our Earth’s atmosphere. The