Cassini orbiting Saturn is a piece of digital artwork by David Robinson which was uploaded on April 10th, 2017.
Cassini orbiting Saturn
The probe Cassini orbiting Saturn in it's last few months prior to it being shot into Saturns atmosphere and burning up in Saturn's upper atmosphere.... more
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Title
Cassini orbiting Saturn
Artist
David Robinson
Medium
Digital Art - Digital
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The probe Cassini orbiting Saturn in it's last few months prior to it being shot into Saturns atmosphere and burning up in Saturn's upper atmosphere. Cassini will begin its plunge into Saturn itself on Sept. 15, disintegrating on approach. The mission’s project manager tells the Guardian that Cassini essentially signed its own death warrant when it discovered environments potentially habitable to life on Saturn’s moons. NASA doesn’t want to risk contaminating those environments by having Cassini inadvertently crash into them. However, sending the spacecraft to its doom is far from a waste. A NASA project scientist says “some of its most extraordinary observations” will come during its final plunge. That includes collecting data that could hint at Saturn’s internal structure and the origins of its rings and the first-ever sample of Saturn’s atmosphere.
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April 10th, 2017
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