Cassini

I know, this news is old hat by now, but I had physics homework to do, and that pill doesn't exactly go down easy.

But anyways...

Last week, NASA announced the end of their Cassini satellite mission around Saturn. The probe was made as a joint project with the Italian Space Agency and has been going strong since 2004. After all these years, it is time to say goodbye to this leg of the journey, maybe even to return and explore with updated technology.

However, in typical mad scientist fashion, the mission isn't going to just vanish overnight. Studies have shown that many of the moons have liquid water, heat, and maybe even the ability to harbor life. Anything living on there will undoubtedly be fragile, susceptible to the elements. This is far too risky of a situation to simply let the probe crash on one of them. So, to round off this thirteen-year odyssey, Cassini has started the first few of its many dives around the planet. sliding through the planet and its rings, it will take the last images before finally falling headlong into the planet's atmosphere, burning up and leaving no trace but a few radio messages.

I don't know about you, but I'm definitely going to be crying on September 17.

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