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Science & Technology
Cassini's 'death dive'
2017-09-16
  • [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

#3  Thought orbital bombardment was against the rules?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-09-16 18:04  

#2  â€¢The radio signal could be seen to flatline, indicating that Cassini had been vapourised in the atmosphere

Or it impacted a Saturnian battle cruiser.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-09-16 15:13  

#1  Should have parked it in the most stable orbit possible. At least visitors, who knows when, would come upon an artifact from an ancient sentient civilization that past long ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-09-16 08:57  

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