Cassini

[ kuh-see-nee, kah- ]

noun

1. O·leg [oh, -leg], 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.

Cassini

/ kæˈsiːnɪ /

noun

1. CassiniGiovanni Domenico16251712MFrenchItalianSCIENCE: astronomer 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

Example Sentences

Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which recorded these signatures back in 2013, planetary scientists used those measurements to peer inside the gas giant’s center.

From Popular-Science

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft did orbit Saturn from 2004 to 2017.

From Science News For Students

Shortly after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, scientists realized that the tiny moon Enceladus vents dramatic plumes of water vapor, dust and ice crystals into space from a hidden subsurface sea.

From Science News

Successful missions such as Viking, Cassini, New Horizons, Juno, and Rosetta were all done with last-century technology.

From Nautilus

Some of our best data for Titan came from the Cassini probe that studied the Saturnian system for about 13 years.

From MIT Technology Review

And Cassini, like other first lady clothiers, was not a big international brand.

From The Daily Beast

The authors of the new study used data from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn to measure the libration of Mimas.

From The Daily Beast

That brings us back to the cloud system monitored by the Cassini mission between July 20 and 22.

From The Daily Beast

Oh, how far the East Wing has come from the sedate days of Oleg Cassini and Arnold Scaasi!

From The Daily Beast

Cassini observed, by the position of certain spots, the revolution of the planet Venus on its axis.

From Project Gutenberg

During the night of the 14th, the wind was light from the westward, and we stood off and on to the north of Cassini Island.

From Project Gutenberg

Cassini was right in saying that cartography was no longer at its height as a science.

From Project Gutenberg

Some persons assert that they saw a green twig come in through the open window which gives upon Cassini Street.

From Project Gutenberg

The attention of the world thus once awakened, Huygens and Cassini applied themselves to ascertain the figure of the earth.

From Project Gutenberg