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Guide To Space - What Did Cassini Teach Us? Remembering Cassini and Saying Goodbye
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Alz4UXGqLk
From March 8, 2017.
In just a few months, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is going to die, crashing into the planet Saturn. Let's look back across the mission's history. What were the highlights? What did we learn?
Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com
Karla Thompson - @karlaii
Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.com
Ask me my favorite object in the Solar System, especially to see through a telescope, and my answer is always the same: Saturn. Saturn is this crazy, ringed world, different than any other place we've ever seen. And in a small telescope, you can really see the ball of the planet - you can see its rings.
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