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Loading contentSaturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most visually striking, encircled by a broad, bright ring system made of countless particles of ice and rock. The rings are easily seen through a small telescope.
Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas giant with no solid surface and a deep atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. It is the second-largest planet in the Solar System.
Saturn has many moons. The largest, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury and has a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane, making it one of the most intriguing worlds in the Solar System.
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Cassini–Huygens was a NASA–ESA–ASI mission launched in 1997 that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and delivered the Huygens probe to the surface of its moon Titan.
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Pioneer 11 flew past Jupiter and became the first spacecraft to encounter Saturn.
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Voyager 1 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that explored Jupiter and Saturn and has since become the most distant human-made object, traveling in interstellar space.
Space mission
Voyager 2 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 and the only spacecraft to have flown past all four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.