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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Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus, Saturn's third-largest moon.
Two new moons of Saturn were found in photos from the Hubble Space Telescope by Astronomers Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin.
Astronomer Richard Walker discovered Saturn's moon, Epimetheus.
NASA launched the Pioneer 11 space probe to study the asteroid belt & the environment around Jupiter and Saturn.
Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars came into alignment. Medieval scholars believed this phenomenon brought forth the Black Death.