Atlas — the interactive world
the Solar System · Understand · schematic figure · 8 planets · 5 dwarf planets · 2 belts · 1 comet · positions computed for today · editorial corpus · no live source connected
Mission · NASA · Completed
Cassini–Huygens
- Launched —
- 1997-10-15
Encounter order — not trajectory
- 1. 2000-12-30 · Jupiter · flybyCassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
- 2. 2004-07-01 · Saturn · orbit insertionCassini enters orbit around Saturn
- 3. 2005-01-14 · Titan · landingHuygens lands on Titan — the only landing on an outer-system moon
- 4. 2017-09-15 · Saturn · end of missionCassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Dates are the operator’s mission record; none was network-verified in this production run, and the record says so.
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).