The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were three years away from launch, while the Cassini-Huygens probe was not quite half-way to Saturn.

精神号和机遇号火星探测器已发射三年了，而卡西尼-惠更斯号探测器还在飞往土星的半路上。

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On January 14, 2005, the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint U.S.-European venture, captured 1, 100 photos during a two-hour descent through Titan's murky atmosphere.

2005年1月14日，美国和欧洲联合参加了卡西尼惠更斯(Cassini - Huygens mission)探险活动，在穿越土卫六雾状大气层的两个小时内，拍摄了1100张照片。

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New data from the arecibo radio telescope in puerto rico seem to hint that this is the case but only the cassini orbiter and the huygens probe can provide confirmation.

由波多黎各的阿雷西波望远镜获得的新资料似乎暗示这个情形，但是只有卡西尼号轨道船和惠更斯号探测器能加以确认。

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The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project between Nasa, Esa and the Italian Space Agency (Asi).

BBC: Nasa extends Saturn probe mission

Cassini-Huygens was launched on 15 October 1997, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, taking seven years to make the 3.5 billion km (2.2 billion miles) journey to Saturn.

BBC: Nasa extends Saturn probe mission

"We have never explored such a place beyond our own Earth, and the technology required is not too different from the successful US-European Cassini-Huygens mission, so it's a natural for the next big international collaboration in space, " commented the scientist, who worked on the 1990s Galileo mission to Jupiter.

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