Tuesday, July 1, 2014

The end of Cassini, 2016-2017


NASA has announced how the spectacular, and spectacularly successful, Cassini mission to Saturn will end.

They will move in closer to the planet, make some in-close measurements and pictures from unique angles (including the rings), and then burn up in the atmosphere, partly so they don't possibly contaminate either Titan or Enceladus with Earth bacteria due to an unplanned crash landing.

But we still have a couple of years before that happens, as they're going to do the final tour in 2016-2017.

Here's a description of it:
The Cassini "Grand Finale"



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