Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its 13-Year Mission Exploring Saturn
Published on November 13, 2017
After 20 years in space and a 13-year mission exploring Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is no more. It successfully ended its Grand Finale mission with a fiery plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere.
Cassini made many groundbreaking discoveries during its tenure. The mission revealed an ocean under the crust of one of Saturn’s moons, which may even be habitable. It also recorded two massive hurricane-like storms at both of Saturn’s poles.
Cassini continued to send data back to earth until it was about 900 miles above Saturn’s clouds, where it burned up and disintegrated.
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