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The dramatic September end of NASA’s Cassini mission concluded a 20-year run aboard the spacecraft for CU’s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS), which helped analyze Saturn’s rings and moons.

1997

Year Cassini left Earth

4.9

Billion miles traveled

294

Saturn orbits completed

$12M

Cost of CU-built UVIS

6

Moons discoveredÌý

453,048

Images taken by Cassini

9/15

Cassini vaporized in Saturn's atmosphereÌý