LookAtMeGo
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Thanks for all the pics Cassini. Hopefully it snaps some sweet close ups on the way down. Rest in gas.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...-spacecraft-to-begin-saturn-death-plunge-liveThe final bits from Cassini, having left Saturn, passed Jupiter and crossed the asteroid belt, will be reaching Mars about now. The signal being received by Nasas tracking station in Canberra is loud and clear. We expect it to vanish in 20 minutes.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...-spacecraft-to-begin-saturn-death-plunge-liveEarl Maize, Cassini's project manager, calls an end to the mission and prompts a round of subdued applause from the gathered team, many of whom started on this adventure more than 20 years ago. A tough moment for some of them, but what a mission, what a legacy.
Why am I sobbing over this? This is so strangely emotional.
I'm more concerned how the Project has apparently been infiltrated by the lizard people. Just look at this Project Manager guy. Cassini was probably a well disguised mission to deliver their vile spawn to other worlds... or to goad us into an interplanetary war with the Saturnians.8 years later...
NASA begins receiving signals from Cassini unexpectedly.
The mission director slowly removes his glasses.
"We have to go back."
CASSINI 2
Why am I sobbing over this? This is so strangely emotional.
This movie sequence of images is from the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
The images were obtained over approximately 14 hours as Cassini's cameras stared at the active, icy moon. The view during the entire sequence is of the moon's night side, but Cassini's perspective Enceladus shifts during the sequence. The movie begins with a view of the part of the surface lit by reflected light from Saturn and transitions to completely unilluminated terrain. The exposure time of the images changes about halfway through the sequence, in order to make fainter details visible. (The change also makes background stars become visible.)
The images in this movie sequence were taken on Aug. 28, 2017, using Cassini's narrow-angle camera. The images were acquired at a distance from Enceladus that changed from 684,000 to 539,000 (1.1 million to 868,000 kilometers). Image scale changes during the sequence, from 4 to 3 miles (7 to 5 kilometers) per pixel.
Damn, missed the live version. Anywhere to watch a recording of this?