Cassini

American  

[kuh-see-nee, kah-] / kəˈsi ni, kɑ- /

noun

1. Oleg Oleg Cassini-Loiewski, 1913–2006, U.S. fashion designer and businessman, born in France.

2. a walled plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 36 miles (56 km) in diameter.

3. Geometry. oval of Cassini.

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Cassini British  

/ kæˈsiːnɪ /

noun

1. Giovanni Domenico. 1625–1712, French astronomer, born in Italy. He discovered (1675) Cassini's division , the gap that divides Saturn's rings into two parts, and four of Saturn's moons

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Example Sentences

The Cassini mission began in 1997 and continued for nearly two decades, gathering extensive information about Saturn and its 274 moons.

From Science Daily

"The deformation we detected during the initial analysis of the Cassini mission data could have been compatible with a global ocean, but now we know that isn't the full story."

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Earlier interpretations of data from NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn led scientists to propose a deep ocean of liquid water hidden beneath Titan's ice.

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Petricca reached these conclusions by analyzing the frequencies of radio waves transmitted from the Cassini spacecraft during close fly-bys of Titan.

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In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini pointed some of the earliest telescopes at Saturn and made a surprising discovery.

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