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October 15, 1997
Cassini-Huygens launches to Saturn
Experience this missionMost ambitious outer-solar-system mission ever flown. Cassini orbits Saturn for 13 years, completes 22 ring-grazing finale orbits, and discovers methane lakes on Titan and water plumes on Enceladus.
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