33+ Saturn Space Probes Pics. The spacecraft was too large (america's largest space probe) to send directly to saturn, so it made. The exploration of saturn has been solely performed by crewless probes.
After thirteen fruitful years studying saturn, its stunning rings and many of its 62 strange moons, the cassini space probe is being steered towards the giant planet itself.
Saturn is named after the roman god of harvest and time, the equivalent of the greek god of time, cronos. Launched in 1997 as a joint nasa/european space agency mission, it took seven years to journey to saturn. After thirteen fruitful years studying saturn, its stunning rings and many of its 62 strange moons, the cassini space probe is being steered towards the giant planet itself. Saturn's rotation causes it to have the shape of an oblate spheroid;
