NASA extended the tour of the international Cassini-Huygens mission scoping out Saturn and its exotic moons by two years, and yet another extension eventually may be in the cards. Cassini's mission originally had been scheduled to end in July. The newly-announced two-year extension will include 60 additional orbits of Saturn and more flybys of its moons. These will include 26 flybys of Titan, seven of Enceladus, and one each of Dione, Rhea and Helene. The extension also includes studies of…
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