Cassini celebrated its 10th year in space on Monday 15th of October 2007. This mission is often thought as being revolutionary because of all it’s different discoveries concerning Saturn and its moons. It also, if you will recall, the little probe Huyghens which landed on Saturn’s largest moon in 2005.

The Probes rode off into space on October 15th 1997 on a Titan IVB Rocket and it took 7 years to get to Saturn. It also flew by Jupiter, taking awesome pictures you can see on the JPL Website.

The mission had already been accepted by the U.S congress several years before the take-off, because it takes a very long time to plan, design, and build a spacecraft designed for such a mission. The Hubble Space Telescope for example took over 10 years to design and develop.

The Mission was a project of the NASA and ESA combined: ESA Supplied the little Huygens probe, which was to land on Titan, and NASA built the Cassini probe, carrying Huygens and robiting Saturn, collecting important information to help us solve the mysteries of the Solar System