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Cassini’s Long Goodbye To Saturn

Mar 29, 2017

Frank Morring, Jr. | Aviation Week & Space Technology

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  Smile for the Camera

  
  

  Earthlings were encouraged to face the sky and smile on July 19, 2013, when Cassini turned its cameras on the home planet for this spectacular ‘pale-blue-dot’ image. In higher magnification, the Moon can be seen orbiting Earth.

  
  

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Cassini entered Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004, and the mission's team has been using the probe’s imaging instruments to gather unprecedented detail on the complex planetary system ever since.