Cassini’s timeline to destruction | Science News

On September 15, 2017, Cassini’s time in the cosmos will come to an end. Here is a play by play of how it’s all going down in the next few days. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/titan-flyby-cassini-saturn-collision

Our story on the mission’s final moments: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rip-cassini-saturn-nasa

NASA’s end of mission timeline: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/cassini-end-of-mission-timeline/

Cassini’s past exploits: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/the-journey/timeline/#launch-from-cape-canaveral

Our past coverage of Cassini’s exploits: http://ow.ly/hC2X30fbxb5

CREDITS

Special thanks to Todd Barber and JPL

Story and production
Helen Thompson

Video & images
JPL-Caltech/NASA
Cassini Imaging Team/SSI/JPL/ESA/NASA
Univ. of Arizona/Univ. of Idaho/JPL-Caltech/NASA
Hampton Univ./SSI/JPL-Caltech/NASA

Music
“Das Reingold” by Richard Wagner
U.S. Marine Band/MusOpen
https://musopen.org/music/490/richard-wagner/das-rheingold-wwv-86a/

“Saturn” by Gustav Holst
U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band
https://archive.org/details/Holst-ThePlanets
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9 thoughts on “Cassini’s timeline to destruction | Science News”

  1. As usual, not a word about all the taxpayer money y'all have burned up on this space cadet malarkey "mission" over the past 20+ years, which was coerced from the population of the US directly, and the population of the world indirectly.

    And that doesn't even include all the " research grants" the US government gang gave to the academia parasites to process all this cockamamie, gee-whiz data, and write their self-serving and self-aggrandizing research papers.
    All that money was and is also routinely looted from the population under threat of asset forfeiture and even forced caging.

    That the government gang can pilfer under threat of force so much money from the population for such "science missions" – while they are powerless to solve so many basic problems on Earth – is the real stellar achievement of the government gang and the "scientific community"!

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