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Cassini Is Gone And I’m Not Crying You’re Crying
After a 20-year sojourn in the final frontier, at approximately 10:00PM AEST tonight, NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory lost contact with the Cassini spacecraft, which had plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere about an hour and a half prior, ending its 13-year exploration of the Saturn system.
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Cassini Stared Into Saturn’s Polar Abyss, And It’s Creepy As Hell
Image Cache: As Cassini’s tour of Saturn comes to a close, NASA’s getting a bit nostalgic. This week, the space agency released a photo of Saturn’s North pole the doomed spacecraft took on April 26 — the day it started its Grand Finale. It’s almost poetic to have a photo of Cassini staring into the…
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Saturn Looks Haunted In Cassini’s First Grand Finale Photos
Good morning, Cassini! Yesterday, at about 5:00PM AEST, NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California’s acquired the orbiter’s signal for the first time since it began its series of Grand Finale dives. The photos it took from the space between Saturn and its rings, which have just been released, are nothing short of breathtaking.…
