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Cassini's 'death dive'
- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Cassini has finally completed its suicide mission, plunging into Saturn's atmosphere
- The mission was completed at 07:56 EST (12:54 BST) today, when Cassini was travelling at 70,000mph
- The radio signal could be seen to flatline, indicating that Cassini had been vapourised in the atmosphere
- Animation released by Nasa ahead of the event revealed what the journey by Cassini would have looked like
- Nasa destroyed the robot to avoid crashing into and contaminating nearby moons that may harbor alien life
Posted by: Fred 2017-09-16 |
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