13 sept 2017

Cassini to give Saturn a "Goodbye Kiss" during its Grand Finale

After a 4.9 billion mile journey spanning more than two decades and countless major discoveries, the Cassini probe will complete its long voyage by plunging into the clouds of Saturn on September 15th, in what NASA's mission engineers are calling the probe's "goodbye kiss". The intentional destruction of the probe is to avoid potentially contaminating the environments of Saturn's moons -- Enceladus in particular -- in case extraterrestrial life might be found there.

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