Saturn at Reach. Saturn is seen here from 9.8 million miles (15.7 million km) by NASA/ESA/Italian Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission which is bound to reach orbit on July, 1st 2004 after a journey of about 7 years. In a fine insertion maneuver, the craft will pierce South-North through ring's plane, just outside main visible rings. Cassini-Huygens will spend about four years studying the universe of Saturn just like Galileo studied the world of Jupiter. The Huygens probe will have Titan, Saturn's largest moon, as a dedicated target. It will parachute there in January 2005 looking for clues in the atmosphere about how primitive Earth evolved into a life-bearing planet. JPL at Caltech, Pasadena, is managing the mission for NASA. picture courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute