The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn’s Rings
The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn’s Rings
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 12, 20175m 45s
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Show Notes
The Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn’s rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward. And like the first ring-crossing two weeks ago, this one required a bit of complicated piloting. Remote-controlling a robot spaceship from 750 million miles away ain’t like dusting crops, as Han Solo might say. (RIP.) (Spoilers.
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