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The Cassini spacecraft will make the first of a series of dives in between Saturn and its rings on April 26th, following a final flyby of Atlas1 on April 12th and Titan on April 22nd:
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story. On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its rings as part of the mission's grand finale.
"No spacecraft has ever gone through the unique region that we'll attempt to boldly cross 22 times," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "What we learn from Cassini's daring final orbits will further our understanding of how giant planets, and planetary systems everywhere, form and evolve. This is truly discovery in action to the very end."
Cassini will plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15th.
April 26th also seems to be the planned airdate for a NOVA special about the legacy and end of the Cassini–Huygens mission.
[1] Cassini flew as close as 32,000 km to Atlas in 2015, capturing imagery with a resolution of 190 meters per pixel. Cassini will fly by Atlas at an altitude of 14,800 km this month.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:32AM (2 children)
Now you just have to pray that some kind soul in NASA will publish (leak) raw images showing alien space craft on Saturn (and Alien ships coming and going to Saturn's rings, plus the artificial nature of Saturn's rings) and not the edited version that smudges alien civilization remains and hides Alien ships.
Aliens used to live on Saturn millions of years ago and had an advanced civilization. Even today, Saturn is considered very important, because historically it was worshiped as the second sun.
David Icke adds some very good info about Saturn here (54 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKS2e3-z2js [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:42AM (1 child)
Will Elon Musk dock with the alien ships, pull aliens out of cold stasis, and conquer their orifices?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:50AM
Elon Musk is an alien lizard (or lizard wannabe). He was sent to soften up the humans for consumption. Humans are food for the aliens. Make no mistake about it. Better careful than sorry.