cassini grand finale
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Cassini Grand Finale Reveals Saturn’s Rings Blast The Planet With Organic Rain
The Saturn-orbiting Cassini-Huygens spacecraft died fighting — in fact, it kept gathering data right up until its final plummet into the gas giant. The daring plunge revealed incredible new things about the charismatic planet — like organic ring rain.
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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…
