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Artist's concept of Cassini 's controlled atmospheric entry into Saturn. The Cassini space probe was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, ending its nearly two-decade-long mission.
He gets inside the Cassini craft and encounters the ship's computer, GAL 2000 (voiced by Sandra Oh), who, in the course of determining the danger, teaches David about spectra, the mission of the spacecraft, different radiation bands used for remote sensing, etc. In the end, they save the antenna of the ship from a beam of anti-matter sent by ...
At around 7:31 AM eastern time, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft disintegrated and plunged into Saturn, becoming the only man-made object ever to touch our solar system's second largest planet. "The ...
However, the mission was extended through 2025 to conduct 42 additional orbits, including close flybys of Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. [24] At the end of its mission, Juno is planned to be deorbited and burned up in Jupiter's outer atmosphere [25] [26] to suppress the risk of biological contamination of its moons. [27]
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet's atmosphere.
View of Saturn from Cassini, taken in March 2004, shortly before the spacecraft's orbital insertion in July 2004. This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA, the European Space Agency ("ESA"), and the Italian Space Agency ("ASI") to send a probe to study the Saturnian system, including ...
Universal Pictures. Director: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney Rating: PG Run time: 91 minutes Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 56%; IMDb 6.4/10 ...
Kevin R. Grazier is an American planetary physicist, [2] known for his work on the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan where he had the dual roles of Science Planning Engineer and Investigation Scientist for the Imaging Science Subsystem instrument. He is an expert in computational methods and planetary dynamics and performs large-scale ...