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  • Cassini Is Gone And I’m Not Crying You’re Crying

    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.


  • Saturn Looks Haunted In Cassini’s First Grand Finale Photos

    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.…