In the
latest news, one week left for Cassini to live...
Old School Posters mark the date
Groovy animations imagine the journey
With sadness we celebrate the final kamikaze dive and breakup
Today/Tonight, Sept. 9 -- Cassini will make the last of 22 passes between Saturn itself and its rings -- closest approach is 1,044 miles (1,680 kilometers) above the clouds tops.
Still remaining are final close approaches to its most celebrated targets... its mightiest and most mysterious of moons... Titan (shrouded with Methane-rich atmosphere) and Enceladus (home to geysers laden with life's precursors)
Come Sept. 15 and Cassini will plunge into Saturn in an act of planetary protection strangely reminiscent of the mythological God consuming its own children
But the Science will live on
