This is what Cassini may look like near Saturn.
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Cassini approaches Saturn's Moon Phoebe
News story originally written on June 11, 2004
A spacecraft named Cassini will soon
get to Saturn. Cassini will start to orbit Saturn on July 1, 2004. It will
study Saturn for
the next four years. Cassini had to travel for seven years to get to Saturn
from Earth!
A little before Cassini gets to Saturn it will pass close by one of Saturn's moons. That moon is called Phoebe. The
only pictures we have of Phoebe now are very fuzzy. Cassini will take pictures
of Phoebe 1,000 time better than the
fuzzy ones. Cassini will fly by Phoebe on June 11, 2004.
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