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Titan is the perfect benchmark for studying exoplanet atmospheres, study suggests
The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...
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The Grand Finale: Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn
Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...
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Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn
A Cassini fly-by in 2007 revealed that the ridge is as heavily cratered as the rest of the 1500-kilometre-diameter moon’s surface, so it must have formed long ago.
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Cassini, the NASA spacecraft that expanded the search for life beyond Earth, dies in Saturn’s sky
Cassini was the last of NASA’s big missions to the outer solar system. It followed in the footsteps of Voyagers 1 and 2, which visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and ...
Enceladus's highly alkaline subsurface ocean may affect search for life
What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...
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A wake, some prayers and a little retail therapy: How NASA engineers mourn the death of a spacecraft - Los Angeles Times
They called it a wake, but the loved one they had come to mourn wasn’t a person. It was the Cassini spacecraft, the robotic explorer that had spent the last 13 years unlocking the mysteries of ...
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Cassini, NASA’s 13-year Saturn mission, has ended - CNN
Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a “death dive” into the upper atmosphere of Saturn and transmitted its final signal, according to NASA.
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Watch Live as NASA's Cassini Finally Faces Its Fiery Doom
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been ready to die for a very long time. The mission, which launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons, was supposed to end in 2008.Then it was supposed to call ...
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Cassini’s grandson sues to force sale of $15M townhouse - New York Post
Cassini’s only surviving child, daughter Christina, is entitled to half of the fortune under the original Cassini-Tierney 1953 divorce decree, one judge found, along with $1 million left to her ...
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge between Saturn and its rings - The Verge
Cassini’s demise is an important part of NASA’s mission plan. After all this time, the vehicle is running low on fuel, which means NASA will eventually lose the ability to maneuver it.
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Cassini’s final pictures of Saturn before suicidal dive into planet - New York Post
NASA has published Cassini’s final images of Saturn before the spaceship performed its death dive into the planet’s atmosphere. Cassini disintegrated into a ball of fire at 7:55 a.m. ED… ...
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Cassini Signs Off After 13 Years of Running Rings Around Saturn
NASA’s aging Cassini spacecraft plunged like a falling torch into the atmosphere of Saturn early Friday morning, ending in a blaze of burning plastic and molten aluminum its 13 years of ...