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Galileo Galilei left a rich scientific legacy that enabled Cassini, Huygens, and other scientists to continue to open the modern era of planetary exploration. The legacy relationship also applies to the spacecraft and missions named after these men. The fundamental philosophy of the Cassini/Huygens mission and its investigative approach were adopted from the Galileo mission. The Cassini spacecraft even uses spare hardware that the Galileo Project did not use. Thus the parallels between the two missions run very deep. This thesis is reinforced in the following description of the Cassini and Huygens missions. Many things are seen to resemble their counterparts on the Galileo mission at Jupiter.
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Matson, D.L., Lebreton, J.P. (1997). Galileos’ Legacy to Cassini: Historical, Philosophical, and Physical. In: Barbieri, C., Rahe, J.H., Johnson, T.V., Sohus, A.M. (eds) The Three Galileos: The Man, the Spacecraft, the Telescope. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8790-7_13
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