"The greatest advances in knowledge of Saturn, as well as of most of the other planets, have come from deep-space probes. Four spacecraft have visited the Saturnian system: Pioneer 11 in 1979, [[w:Four spacecraft have visited the Saturnian system: Pioneer 11 in 1979, [[w:Voyagers 1|Voyagers 1] and 2 in the two years following, and, after almost a quarter-century, , which arrived in 2004. The first three missions were short-term flybys, but Cassini -Huuygens|Cassini-Huygens]] went into orbit around Saturn for years of investigations, while its Huygens probe parachuted through the atmosphere of Titan and reached its surface, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a moon other than Earth’s.."
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