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Cassini’s Last Look At Titan Is Breathtaking And Bittersweet
The end is nigh for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the intrepid probe that’s been studying the Saturn system for the last 13 years. On Friday, September 15, Cassini will plunge itself into Saturn’s atmosphere with its antenna pointed toward Earth, becoming part of the place it’s called home all these years.
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Cassini Dropped Its Most Mind-Blowing Look At Saturn’s Rings Yet
Though Cassini only has a few days left to study Saturn before it dies, it’s seriously making them count. Yesterday, NASA released what it says are “the highest-resolution colour images of any part of Saturn’s rings”. In true Cassini fashion, they’re absolutely mesmerising.
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SpaceX Just Launched A Mysterious Space Plane Right Before A Monster Hurricane
SpaceX has pulled off some exhilarating launches and landings in the past, but today’s mission ranked among its most suspenseful. Today, the company launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a US Air Force X-37B space plane from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, just days before Hurricane Irma is expected to strike Florida.
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How Cats (And Other Good Animals) Helped Pave The Way For Human Spaceflight
All cats are amateur physicists. We know this because they insist on constantly knocking things over to make sure gravity still exists. But just because cats are interested in science doesn’t make them great candidates for space travel. Of course, that didn’t stop the Air Force from putting that to the test.