She's dead

Splendid job on a 20 year journey. A violent fiery death, it was the only way. Confirmed dead at 1255GMT. She’s gone now guys and we’ll never hear from her again. Emotional for astronomy enthusiasts.

https://scienceogram.org/media/2017/09/cassini-saturn-grand-finale-cost-scienceogram-1.0.jpg

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who

cassini voyager

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Video link?

What was the logic in killing her?
Why crash her into saturn deliberately instead of letting her keep going round and round till she ran out of juice or collapsed on her own?

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635 gb of data pekee?

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it had already running out of juice, even if they had let it orbit saturn indefinitely, there is absolutely no data that the voyager would have been sending back.

so they had to give it a spectacular ending

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Do they still communicate with the voyagers?

Ilisemekana pia the scientists did not want Cassini’s fragments to pollute/contaminate delicate features of the planet after it has served its purpose. Eti some images show the planet has oceans/water, which hypothetically means it can support life.

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Kwani hawangeirudisha nyumbani that’s space pollution if you asked me

Fuel ingetoka wapi? It has been on the move for 13 years.

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But they are supposed to factor in the return journey soon as fuel hits a certain point return mission initiated

Sidhani they were interested in a return journey when they launched it.

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There are two others which have served their purposes and are way past pluto speeding into nowhere

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Was completely incinerated

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Suspected microorganisms, not life as we know it

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Are you sure these things exist? I am with Kim on this. Propaganda of grand illusions! :smiley:

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ii ni kuota ama ni nini

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They still do and will probably continue for next nearly 30years

Just trying to imagine the kind of precision engineering required to conceptualize and deploy such. I’m in awe!

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