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The spacecraft Cassini is pictured above Saturn’s northern hemisphere prior to making one of its Grand Finale dives in this NASA handout illustration obtained by Reuters August 29, 2017. NASA/Handout via REUTERS
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 16, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
London- US space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will end its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet’s atmosphere, transmitting data until the final fiery moment. Cassini, the first spacecraft to orbit...
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The Saturn moon Mimas (Reuters / NASA) / Reuters
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 15, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
The US space agency NASA received a final signal from its Cassini spacecraft on Friday as it ended a groundbreaking, 13-year Saturn mission. “This morning a lone explorer – a machine made by human-kind – finished its mission 900 million miles away,”...
