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Here’s What We’ve Learned About Saturn Since Cassini Entered Its Orbit 20 Years Ago
Aaron Boorstein Staff Contributor During the summer of 2004, almost seven years after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn for the first time. A NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian Space Agency …