After 13 years at Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is ready for its grand finale
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 05:31
in Astronomy & Space
What do you do with a 20-year-old spacecraft that has spent 13 years orbiting Saturn, logged 4.1 billion miles in space and is about to run out of fuel? You could crash it into one of the dozens of moons that orbit the ringed planet. Or you could let it hang out in a wide orbit around the gas giant...
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