# 🪐 Cassini Spacecraft Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What planet did the Cassini spacecraft primarily study?  
**Answer:** Saturn  
**Taglines:**  
- It put a ring on science  
- Saturn’s paparazzi, 24/7  
- Lord of the Rings: NASA edition  
- Orbiting drama queen of the solar system  
- Who needs Mars when you’ve got Saturn’s bling?  

### 2. What moon did Cassini deliver a lander to?  
**Answer:** Titan  
**Taglines:**  
- The moon with foggy drama  
- Bigger than Mercury, moodier than Neptune  
- Orange skies and wet dreams  
- Titan: Saturn’s thick-shelled secret  
- Where lakes aren’t made of water... yikes  

### 3. What European space agency helped develop the Huygens lander?  
**Answer:** ESA (European Space Agency)  
**Taglines:**  
- Teamwork makes the dream work  
- When Europe says, “Let’s drop something on that moon”  
- ESA: came for the data, stayed for the methane  
- Continental cooperation, cosmic destination  
- Europe’s got landing skills, apparently  

### 4. In what year did Cassini end its mission?  
**Answer:** 2017  
**Taglines:**  
- The year it took a dive for science  
- 2017: Saturn said goodbye  
- One last bellyflop into glory  
- It’s not a crash, it’s a planned emotional breakdown  
- NASA’s version of “delete my browser history”  

### 5. How did Cassini end its mission?  
**Answer:** It plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere  
**Taglines:**  
- Death dive with style  
- Final descent, zero regrets  
- Saturn: 1, Spacecraft: dramatically 0  
- That’s one way to say goodbye  
- Burned out, not faded away  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Cassini launched from Earth in the year ______.  
**Answer:** 1997  
**Taglines:**  
- The ‘90s: grunge, Tamagotchis, and interplanetary science  
- Long trip, longer playlist  
- Launched before half of you were born  
- Dial-up was still a thing  
- NASA: going long before going viral  

### 2. Cassini was a collaboration between NASA, ESA, and ______.  
**Answer:** ASI (Italian Space Agency)  
**Taglines:**  
- Pasta, fashion, and space  
- Italy in space: bellissimo  
- Rome wasn’t built in a day, but Cassini sure got there  
- Spaghetti and spacecraft  
- Galileo would be proud  

### 3. The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for nearly ______ years.  
**Answer:** 13  
**Taglines:**  
- That’s one long cosmic sleepover  
- Teen years in orbit  
- Saturn’s longest houseguest  
- High school + college = Cassini’s Saturn time  
- Orbiting like it forgot how to quit  

### 4. The Huygens lander was dropped onto Titan in ______.  
**Answer:** 2005  
**Taglines:**  
- First touchdown in deep fog  
- Huygens: the party crasher of Titan  
- 2005: not just for iPods anymore  
- The year Titan got poked  
- “New moon who dis?”  

### 5. Cassini discovered geysers on the moon ______.  
**Answer:** Enceladus  
**Taglines:**  
- Enceladus: Saturn’s sneaky snowball  
- Space geysers? You bet  
- Life? Maybe. Ice? Absolutely  
- Water rockets from space rocks  
- Cold, wet, and wildly exciting  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What type of mission was Cassini?  
A) Asteroid sampling  
B) Venus orbit  
C) Saturn orbiter ✅  
D) Mars rover  
**Taglines:**  
- Not every NASA craft goes to Mars  
- It orbited Saturn, not your expectations  
- Cassini: your friendly gas giant stalker  
- Mars is for rookies  
- Saturn was the real glow-up  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What was the main reason Cassini was destroyed in Saturn’s atmosphere?  
A) Budget cuts  
B) Avoid contaminating moons ✅  
C) Loss of signal  
D) Engine failure  
**Taglines:**  
- We destroyed it to protect aliens  
- Planetary protection: NASA edition  
- Cassini: the martyr of microbial ethics  
- Don’t bring germs to the outer solar system  
- Burning up to save bacteria  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What instrument did Cassini use to study Saturn’s rings?  
A) LIDAR  
B) RADAR  
C) Imaging Science Subsystem ✅  
D) Neutron Spectrometer  
**Taglines:**  
- Cameras, but make them cosmic  
- ISS: not just for astronauts  
- Saturn’s glam team  
- Ring selfies, 13 years running  
- Strike a pose, planetary style  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What major scientific theory did Cassini help support?  
A) Moon collapse  
B) Alien civilizations  
C) Subsurface oceans on moons ✅  
D) Saturn is hollow  
**Taglines:**  
- Water under ice = space mystery juice  
- Liquid secrets beneath cold crusts  
- Enceladus just got interesting  
- Life's new real estate listing  
- Oceans: now with cosmic insulation  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Which NASA center managed the Cassini mission?  
A) Kennedy Space Center  
B) Ames Research Center  
C) Jet Propulsion Laboratory ✅  
D) Goddard Space Flight Center  
**Taglines:**  
- JPL: making space magic happen  
- Rocket nerds, unite  
- Pasadena: the Saturn connection  
- Jet propulsion? More like genius propulsion  
- Lab coat legends
