Express to Saturn
Nov 01, 2019
2 minutes
by Meg Thacher
The End
The control room was quiet. NASA had lost all signals from Cassini. The 3.9-billion-dollar spacecraft fell into Saturn’s thick atmosphere. It broke into pieces and melted. Had disaster struck? And if so, why was everyone cheering?
On September 15, 2017, Cassini crashed into the planet it had studied for 13 years. On purpose! It was almost out of
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