2009: NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the presence of a gigantic, low density ring associated with Saturn’s distant moon Phoebe.Images taken during a solar occultation that backlit the planet revealed the new ring. A Telescopic View of Saturn obtained by pointing a video-camera through the eyepiece of an 8-inch reflecting telescope in January 2004, some two weeks after the planets opposition at the end of 2003. The ring coincides with the orbits of Saturn's moons Janus and Epimetheus. 17, 2006: Scientists discover a new ring. The probe provides the first direct study of Titan's atmosphere and the first-and-only direct images of Titan's surface, which is shrouded by thick 14, 2005: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe is the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the surface of another planet's moon - Saturn's giant moon Titan. July 1, 2004: NASA's Cassini spacecraft becomes the first to orbit Saturn, beginning a decade-long mission that revealed many secrets and surprises about Saturn and its system of rings and moons.Flying even closer to Saturn in 1981, Voyager 2 provides more detailed images and documents the thinness of some of the rings. 19: In its 1980 flyby of Saturn, Voyager 1 reveals the intricate structure of the ring system, consisting of thousands of ringlets.Among Pioneer 11's many discoveries are Saturn's F ring and a new moon. 1, 1979: Pioneer 11 is the first spacecraft to reach Saturn. 1675: Italian-born astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini discovers a "division" between what are now called the A and B rings.1655: Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's rings and its largest moon, Titan.July 1610: Galileo Galilei spots Saturn's rings through a telescope, but mistakes them for a "triple planet.".
NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft followed up with flybys nine months apart in 19. NASA's Pioneer 11 provided the first close look in September 1979. Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech / Academia de Arte Yepes Exploration Galleries Four robotic spacecraft have visited Saturn.
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