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Cassini Spacecraft Burns Up in The Skies of Saturn 16 Sep 2017

Cassini Spacecraft Burns Up in The Skies of Saturn

TEHRAN  – Cassini spacecraft has burned up in the skies over Saturn as planned, NASA said Friday, ending a 20-year mission to circle Saturn and transform the way we think about life elsewhere in the solar system. Cassini, an international project that cost $3.9 billion and included scientists from 27 nations, has run out of […]

Cassini Probe About to Plunge to Its Doom 13 Sep 2017

Cassini Probe About to Plunge to Its Doom

TEHRAN  – Early on Friday morning, NASA’s Cassini probe will meet its doom as it becomes a streak of plutonium-laced fireworks in the clouds of Saturn. The nuclear-powered robot was launched in 1997 to deeply study Saturn and its mysterious collection of moons. Cassini arrived in 2004, dropped off a lander on one moon, began […]