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Cassini, R.I.P.

limeygent
limeygent Posts: 3,217
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What a fantastic achievement.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,351
    What a mission.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    What you on about?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    All I wanna know is, will Bedsaddick change his pic?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    been a long life journey .. now it's crash and burn
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Love it - with each of these space missions we get to learn more and more about what I consider a fascinating subject
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    As Neil Young told us, it's better to burn out then it is to rust.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    A fantastic scientific and engineering achievement.
    Astonishing really, those actual pictures they showed were awesome.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    "I have something to say, it's better to burn out, than to fade away!"
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    It annoys me how they colour the space photos to make them look more spectacular.

    The whole concept of planning a journey that far using slingshots around planets to save fuel is mind blowing.
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    RIP
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    I thought it was another bloody musician I had never heard of.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    "It's wrong to wish on space hardware..."
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Incredible achievement.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Mind boggling. Hard to believe the distances involved, and I've regularly driven to Cumbria on a Friday night.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Uboat said:

    Mind boggling. Hard to believe the distances involved, and I've regularly driven to Cumbria on a Friday night.

    Has it been there too?
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,677
    There's more about the Cassini mission in a special Horizon programme on BBC Two which will review the mission on Monday 18 September at 21:00 BST.

    7 Cassini discoveries.

    1. Life could exist on the moon Enceladus
    2. Six new moons discovered
    (Saturn has over 60 moons, 6 of which Cassini discovered. Some of Saturn's moons resemble potatoes, another has colourful streaks. The moons vary in size, colour, texture, composition — each Saturn moon is, in a way, its own character.)
    3. Each season on Saturn lasts about seven Earth years.
    4. Titan the moon has hidden oceans
    (Saturn's largest moon, bigger than Mercury, hides dunes, mountains of water ice and seas of liquid methane. It's the solar system's only moon with liquid reservoirs on its surface.)
    5. Saturn's rings
    (Unlike other planets, Saturn has retained its rings through nearly 5bn years of the solar system. Cassini captured how the moons, and moonlets, push and tug at the rings made of ice and dust. The interchange of material is what 'feeds' the rings.)
    6. Saturn has 'hurricanes'
    (Saturn's turbulent atmosphere churns with storms; Cassini got an up-close look at the north polar storm: its eye was 50 times wider than an Earth hurricane's eye.)
    7. Only other planet known to have lightning
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Horizon BBC 2 just now (9pm - 10pm). Very good. Catch it on iplayer if you've missed it
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Amazing to see the emotion in the team who worked on it as they plummeted it into Saturn
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Fantastic pictures of Titan.
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  • Onlyme
    Onlyme Posts: 384
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    1StevieG said:

    Fantastic pictures of Titan.

    Wow! it must had some lense to take this one.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP

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