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Escape This Wretched Earth For An Hour With Google’s Sweet New Solar System Maps
Image: Google/NASA If you, like me, are tired of this world — these people — tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives, Google now allows you explore 16 other planetary bodies that are more serene than this one.
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The Cassini Team Reflects On How It Feels To Say Goodbye To Their Spacecraft
Last week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slammed into the day side of Saturn, the brief flash of its vaporisation marking the end of a 13-year mission. But it took people to turn this hunk of aluminium and silicon into an extension of our curiosity.
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How To Watch Cassini’s Grand Finale
The Cassini spacecraft, after 20 years of documenting Saturn, will bid us a fond farewell as it burns up in the atmosphere of Saturn later this evening. We will be on the ground at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex documenting every step, and here’s how you can watch too.
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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.