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Cassini Navigation Team members track Huygens release

Members of the Cassini Navigation Team track Cassini.
Source: NASA / Jet Propulsiob Laboratory - Caltech
Published: January 5, 2005

Nathan Strange and Troy Goodson of the Cassini Navigation Team track the release of the probe. The confirmation signal arrived at 7.24 p.m. PST on Dec. 24, 2004.

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