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Cassini Grand Finale |OT| UPDATE: Mission ends 9/15

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cameron

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https://twitter.com/CassiniSaturn/status/908640019019055104


https://www.nasa.gov/live/


Edit: While waiting, NYT: Cassini's Mission to Saturn in 100 Images
 
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Godspeed Cassini.

May the brilliant images you captured, alongside the scientific insights you delivered, inspire future generations to reach for the stars.
 
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This is quite emotional :/

edit: "We have loss of signal" "That will be the end of the spacecraft"

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Hung on for an extra 5 seconds beyond expected at 75,000 MPH in the atmosphere of a gas giant.

What a spacecraft. Thankyou Cassini.
 
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20 years. The team should be beyond fucking proud what they have achieved and accomplished over the course of 20 years. A historic mission and one of my favorite spacecraft.

RIP Cassini.
 
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8 years later...
NASA begins receiving signals from Cassini unexpectedly.
The mission director slowly removes his glasses.
"We have to go back."

CASSINI 2
 
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djplaeskool said:
8 years later...
NASA begins receiving signals from Cassini unexpectedly.
The mission director slowly removes his glasses.
"We have to go back."

CASSINI 2
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I'm more concerned how the Project has apparently been infiltrated by the lizard people. Just look at this Project Manager guy. Cassini was probably a well disguised mission to deliver their vile spawn to other worlds... or to goad us into an interplanetary war with the Saturnians.

Photographic evidence fresh off Nasas official Flickr account:
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Just look at that Project Manager with his crazy eye colour.

(Obviously it's a red eye removal filter that went over the top, but I like the Lizard people theory better.)
 
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Cassini is going to leave a huge void for new observations on NASA's Photojournal (Planetary Image Archive): https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/new

Taken on Aug. 28, 2017: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21887
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This movie sequence of images is from the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The images were obtained over approximately 14 hours as Cassini's cameras stared at the active, icy moon. The view during the entire sequence is of the moon's night side, but Cassini's perspective Enceladus shifts during the sequence. The movie begins with a view of the part of the surface lit by reflected light from Saturn and transitions to completely unilluminated terrain. The exposure time of the images changes about halfway through the sequence, in order to make fainter details visible. (The change also makes background stars become visible.)

The images in this movie sequence were taken on Aug. 28, 2017, using Cassini's narrow-angle camera. The images were acquired at a distance from Enceladus that changed from 684,000 to 539,000 (1.1 million to 868,000 kilometers). Image scale changes during the sequence, from 4 to 3 miles (7 to 5 kilometers) per pixel.
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Damn, missed the live version. Anywhere to watch a recording of this?
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Stream is still live. You can scrub back ~3 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0

They'll most likely have an archived link up on their channel within a day.
 
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