Not exact matches
Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed
planet and provided streams of data
about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and
icy satellites.
And
Planet X could roam as far as 600 to 1200 AU, well beyond the Kuiper belt, the region of small
icy worlds that begins at Neptune's edge
about 30 AU.
The pictures, taken when New Horizons was
about 13 million kilometers from the dwarf
planet, show three different swaths of the
icy surface as Pluto slowly rotated on its axis.
Finding out
about Makemake's properties for the first time is a big step forward in our study of the select club of
icy dwarf
planets.»