NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale

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NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Published on Apr 4, 2017

The final chapter in a remarkable mission of exploration and discovery, Cassini's Grand Finale is in many ways like a brand new mission. Twenty-two times, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will dive through the unexplored space between Saturn and its rings. What we learn from these ultra-close passes over the planet could be some of the most exciting revelations ever returned by the long-lived spacecraft. This animated video tells the story of Cassini's final, daring assignment and looks back at what the mission has accomplished.

This was the termination of NASA's 10-Year long Saturn Space Mission..."the farthest detailed mission in Space in its time... A journey when the distance to Saturn from our planet is constantly changing as both of the planets travel through space. When the two are closest, they lie approximately 746 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) apart, or eight times the distance between the Earth and the sun.Nov 14, 2012."

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