“In September 2009, the Cᴀssini spacecraft pH๏τographed what NASA calls an anomaly, a strange object that they believe moved at will under the control of an intelligence, was metallic and magnetic,” explains Robert Dean. The ‘object’ was found to be approximately 3200 km long and 800 km in diameter.”

Cᴀssini–Huygens

Ex-military releases NASA video showing a 3,200 km long spacecraft of unknown origin (Video) – Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations

The Cᴀssini–Huygens space-research mission (/kəˈsiːni ˈhɔɪɡənz/ kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cᴀssini, involved a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA’s Cᴀssini space probe and ESA’s Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn’s largest moon, тιтan.[7] Cᴀssini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017. The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cᴀssini and Christiaan Huygens.

Launched aboard a тιтan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cᴀssini was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004.[8] The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August 1999), the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter (December 2000). The mission ended on September 15, 2017, when Cᴀssini’s trajectory took it into Saturn’s upper atmosphere and it burned up[9][10] in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn’s moons, which might have offered habitable environments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft.[11][12] The mission was successful beyond expectations – NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, described Cᴀssini-Huygens as a “mission of firsts”[13] that has revolutionized human understanding of the Saturn system, including its moons and rings, and our understanding of where life might be found in the Solar System.

Cᴀssini‘s planners originally scheduled a mission of four years, from June 2004 to May 2008. The mission was extended for another two years until September 2010, branded the Cᴀssini Equinox Mission. The mission was extended a second and final time with the Cᴀssini Solstice Mission, lasting another seven years until September 15, 2017, on which date Cᴀssini was de-orbited to burn up in Saturn’s upper atmosphere.

The Huygens module travelled with Cᴀssini until its separation from the probe on December 25, 2004; Huygens landed by parachute on тιтan on January 14, 2005. It returned data to Earth for around 90 minutes, using the orbiter as a relay. This was the first landing ever accomplished in the outer Solar System and the first landing on a moon other than Earth’s Moon.