Instrument

Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA)

Cassini's dust detector, which sampled the grains of Saturn's rings and the ice particles of Enceladus's plume, measuring their composition and revealing the moon's subsurface ocean.

Dust Detector

Flown on

Cassini–Huygens

Knowledge connections

Member of groupDust Detector
Instrument onCassini–Huygens

Sources

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NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics
Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.

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