Kingdom of Saturn
It will rank as one of the greatest space missions of all time. On its way to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft travelled nearly four billion kilometers, delivered a probe to a toxic moon, discovered phantasmagorical structures on the planet's icy rings and studied the startling atmosphere on a tiny moon. NASA ended the mission in a daring spiral dive into Saturn's atmosphere. Its legacy will endure.
It will rank as one of the greatest space missions of all time. On its way to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft travelled nearly four billion kilometers, delivered a probe to a toxic moon, discovered phantasmagorical structures on the planet's icy rings and studied the startling atmosphere on a tiny moon. NASA ended the mission in a daring spiral dive into Saturn's atmosphere. Its legacy will endure.
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