Overview | The Grand Finale – NASA Solar System Exploration
In April 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft began writing the final, thrilling chapter of its remarkable 20-year-long story of exploration: its Grand Finale. Every week, Cassini dived through the approximately 1,200-mile-wide (2,000-kilometer-wide) gap between Saturn and its rings.
Cassini’s Final Moments: A Hero’s Farewell to Saturn - YouTube
Explore the final chapter of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere, ending a 20-year mission of exploration and discovery. #Cassin...
NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale - YouTube
Apr 4, 2017 · NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale. The final chapter in a remarkable mission of exploration and discovery, Cassini's Grand Finale is in many ways like a brand new mission....
Overview - NASA Science
In April 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft began writing the final, thrilling chapter of its remarkable 20-year-long story of exploration: its Grand Finale. Every week, Cassini dived through the approximately 1,200-mile-wide (2,000-kilometer-wide) gap between Saturn and its rings.
Grand Finale | The Journey – NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini’s final 22 orbits carried the spacecraft on an elliptical path, diving at tens of thousands of miles per hour through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer-wide) space between the rings and the planet, where no spacecraft has explored before.
Cassini's Grand Finale | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Apr 4, 2017 · Cassini's Grand Finale is a brand new adventure. Twenty-two dives through the space between Saturn and its rings. As it repeatedly braves this unexplored region, Cassini seeks new insights about the origins of the rings, and the nature of the planet's interior -- closer to Saturn than ever before.
Cassini - The Grand Finale – NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 24, 2024 · During NASA's Cassini mission's final distant encounter with Saturn's giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon's north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane.
Cassini’s Grand Finale - Science@NASA
Apr 4, 2017 · Cassini's Grand Finale is a brand new adventure. Twenty-two dives through the space between Saturn and its rings. As it repeatedly braves this unexplored region, Cassini seeks new insights about the origins of the rings, and the nature of the planet's interior -- closer to Saturn than ever before.
NASA’s Cassini Mission Prepares for ‘Grand Finale’ at Saturn
Apr 4, 2017 · Cassini will transition to its grand finale orbits, with a last close flyby of Saturn’s giant moon Titan, on Saturday, April 22. As it has many times over the course of the mission, Titan’s gravity will bend Cassini’s flight path.
How NASA's Cassini spacecraft will dive-bomb Saturn - CNET
Sep 14, 2017 · "Cassini's grand finale is both exciting and bittersweet," Planetary Society CEO and famed "science guy" Bill Nye said in a statement. "Rest assured, the mission's science will carry on long...