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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Cassini’s grand finale

Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech
04 Sep 2017
Taken from the September 2017 issue of Physics World

Flying closer to Saturn than ever before, the Cassini spacecraft has spent the last few months diving between the planet and its rings, collecting new and unique data ahead of its suicidal plunge into the planet on 15 September, as Joshua Colwell reveals

After spending more than 13 years as an artificial moon of the most famous ringed planet, NASA’s C

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Joshua Colwell is a professor of physics at the University of Central Florida, US, where he is director of the Center for Microgravity Research, and a co-investigator on the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph on the Cassini mission, e-mail josh@ucf.edu
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