Cassini's pioneering mission ends

Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Space Science Institute

On Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th, the his­toric Cassini mis­sion, an inter­na­tional endeav­our, led by NASA and ESA, came to an end. The Cassini space­craft plunged into Saturn’s atmos­phere after almost 20 years in space and a 13- year-​long explo­ration of the ringed planet and its sur­round­ings.

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