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So Cassini is no more

  • 15-09-2017 02:59PM
    #1
    AMKC
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    Nasa decided it was time to end it as its fuel was low and they did not want contaminate any of the moons around the planet so future explores can still explore them as they are. It burned up in the atmosphere of Saturn sometime early today.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • #2
    Harry Palmr
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    The last of the Swiss army knives in space :)


  • #3
    JupiterKid
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    The end of an era. Cassini was the last of the Mariner/Voyager type unmanned spacecraft design stable.

    Cassini revolutionised our knowledge about Saturn the way Voyager did 20 years earlier. Landing Huygens on the surface of Titan was an astounding feat! Rivers and seas of hydrocarbons on Titan. The water geysers of Enceladus, the polar vortices, breathtaking detail in the rings etc.

    Farewell Cassini! There won't be another outer planet orbiter mission for quite a long time.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Farewell Cassini! There won't be another outer planet orbiter mission for quite a long time.
    Well Juno's been orbiting Jupiter for a little over a year now.

    But due to end the mission in February :(
    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/juno/


    Soon it'll be as sparse as when they were able to redirect an existing spacecraft to visit Halley's Comet.


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