Name: Cassini: The Grand Finale
Uploaded: 2017-01-01
Duration: 12 min 13 s
Description: Twenty years after its launch, we bid farewell to the Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere in a planned death spiral. Productive right to the end, Cassini has rewritten the textbook on not only Saturn and its moons, but our whole solar system as well.

Twenty years after its launch, we bid farewell to the Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere in a planned death spiral. Productive right to the end, Cassini has rewritten the textbook on not only Saturn and its moons, but our whole solar system as well.

This episode captures the spacecraft’s planned descent into Saturn’s atmosphere after 20 years in space, gathering new data to the last second. You will see how its final orbits transformed our view of Saturn, its rings, and moons like Titan and Enceladus. Sign up to experience a dramatic farewell shaped by discoveries that changed our understanding of the solar system.

Witness Cassini’s final plunge as Saturn yields its closest secrets.

Cassini: The Grand Finale

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