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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Well folks, that's a wrap on Cassini! Here's our story on the mission's final moments: http://www.sciencenews.org/article/rip-cassini-saturn-nasa
aww this makes me happy and sad at the same time idek… rip Cassini (in 5.5 hours)
If you're interested, here's more information on how to follow Cassini's last moments: http://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/cassini-probe-dies-tomorrow-heres-how-follow-its-end
Empathy for a machine. Great video
WHY DOES'NT NASA DOCK ANOTHER SPACECRAFT INTO CASSINI SO IT GEN GET FUEL
Farewell old friend.
Farewell beautiful cassini 😭😭😭😭
Good luck for next….
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"!
Well done, team Cassini
Well done….