Saturday, September 16, 2017

Grand Finale



Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the last image transmitted by the Cassini Orbiter as it was deorbited into Saturn. The science continued during Cassini's final trajectory, lasting nearly sixty seconds after it was estimated the spacecraft would be unable to maintain communications with Earth.

Goodbye, Cassini. You were, possibly, the grandest of our grand explorations.

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