The joint US-European mission to Saturn, Cassini-Huygens, has successfully entered into orbit around the planet!

The 95 minute main engine burn on this morning slowed it down enough to be captured by Saturn's gravity. It actually passed through a gap between two of the rings while decelerating.

Having traveled for more than six years and three billion km, it can now start a four-year study of the ringed planet and its 31 moons.

Nifty stuff!

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