cassini
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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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Cassini’s Final Dives Will Take Us Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before
As things here on Earth become increasingly more Theatre of the Absurd, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft whizzes millions of kilometres away, unaffected by our intra-human squabbling. After 20 years of heading toward and exploring the Saturn system, on September 15, Cassini will plunge itself into the planet’s atmosphere, broadcasting the whole thing like a tearfully beautiful…
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Cassini’s Second Grand Finale Dive Might Be Outshining The First One
Cassini’s six-month-long first round.
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Cassini’s First Grand Finale Images Are Stunning, But What Are We Really Looking At?
It was 1:56PM Thursday afternoon AEST when a Deep Space Network receiver picked up a signal from NASA’s Cassini orbiter as it emerged from its first trip through the gap between Saturn and the gas giant’s rings. In the ensuing data came pictures of the planet’s north pole and cloud tops from only 3000km away…