Say Goodbye to Cassini

A lovely view of Saturn and its rings as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 12, 2009.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Cassini Is About To Graze Saturn’s Rings In Mission Endgame

There is a Twitter-bot that randomly tweets out “NOOOOOOOO Cassini can’t be ending!” (with varying amounts of “O’s”). @CassiniNooo represents the collective sigh of sadness and consternation felt by those of us who can’t believe the the historic and extensive Cassini mission will be over in just a matter of months.

And next week is the beginning of the end for Cassini. Se the complete story at Universe Today and minute by minute updates on Saturn.JPL.NASA.gov