Cassini-Huygens was a collaborative unmanned space mission involving NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Its primary objective was to study the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites, its rings, and its magnetosphere.
NASA’s ‘Cassini’ spacecraft is on mission for which planet ?
Asked in UKPSC CS Prelims 2016 · Topic: Astronomy and Astrophysics Basics (Planetary Science: Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Comets)
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