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Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan
NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft carrying a $12.5 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package is on a four-year mission to probe Saturn’s fabulous ring system and bizarre moons. Launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the orbiter is carrying LASP's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph, or UVIS.
The UVIS instrument package has a set of telescopes to measure UV light reflected by or emitted from Saturn's atmosphere, its rings and its moon atmospheres and surfaces. UVIS also includes a high-speed photometer to determine the radial structure and dynamics of the ring system.
LASP has been building ultraviolet spectrometers for NASA since the Mars missions in the mid-1960s. Today, LASP is conducting five major flight-build programs and has contracts for more than 140 data and research programs with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
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