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Cassini Pays a Last Visit to an Icy Moon of Saturn
Last week, the nothing-short-of-phenomenal Cassini spacecraft made its last close pass of Saturn’s icy moon Dione. Yes, last. After more than a decade orbiting Saturn, the Cassini mission’s days are numbered. It will end late in 2017, after deservedly being extended twice (and having toured the Saturnian neighborhood since 2004). So, in many...
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It's disappointing that Cassini will be destroyed at the end of its mission, I'm sure that during its descent into the atmosphere that it will send back data that we couldn't get any other way, but it has performed so well for so long that crashing it into Saturn seems a bit undignified.