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Cassini Equinox Mission

Started by Recusant, April 24, 2009, 03:29:17 PM

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Recusant

Farewell to Cassini: it's set to auger into Saturn. As I post this, there are about 10½ hours left.

There's a live feed from NASA as well.
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Recusant

The final image from Cassini. It went into the atmosphere of Saturn somewhere in the area shown.


An infrared image showing the impact site (highlighted in the white oval):


Both are from the NASA 'Grand Finale' slide show.
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth."
— H. L. Mencken


Dave

Was going to say, "Cool images" but I guess it got very hot in the last seconds!
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