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What You Need to Know About the Final 11 Orbits of Cassini

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jul 6, 2017
The Cassini spacecraft has only 11 more orbits left of the ringed planet Saturn before its destruction. On September 15th, 2017, Cassini will make a planned plunge into the clouds of Saturn, which will cause it to break up. The science is packed in for Cassini over these orbits: it will study the rings by imaging and sampling, create a more accurate gravitational map of Saturn, and measure the magnetic field of Saturn. Here take a look at the summary of science in the final phase of the Grand
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Cassini Makes its First Dive Between Saturn and its Rings

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
May 1, 2017
NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission has begun its final mission phase, making its first dive between the planet Saturn and its rings. It is the only craft to ever make that plunge. Check out some of the amazing images it took as it went through, including the north pole hexagonal vortex.
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The Beginning of the End for Cassini

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
A short description of the upcoming Grand Finale of the Cassini Spacecraft. Over the next 5 months, Cassini will make 22 plunges between Saturn's rings and the planet itself. No craft has ever been that close. During this final phase, Cassini will make close up measurements of the rings for the first time, image the planet's cloud-tops in unprecedented detail, and even answer long-standing questions like: how fast does Saturn actually rotate? It's going to be a very interesting 5 months.

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