The European Huygens space probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.
It was the first ever landing in the outer solar system.
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Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus made his first observation of Saturn.
Two new moons of Saturn were found in photos from the Hubble Space Telescope by Astronomers Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin.
NASA launched the Pioneer 11 space probe to study the asteroid belt & the environment around Jupiter and Saturn.
Pioneer 11 makes its closest approach to Saturn.
Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus, Saturn's third-largest moon.