Cassini Completes Final — and Fateful — Titan Flyby

Towleroad April 25, 2017 Leave a Comment

Cassini Titan — This unprocessed image of saturn’s moon titan was captured by nasa’s cassini spacecraft during its final close flyby of the hazy, planet-sized moon on april 21, 2017.
credits: nasa/jpl-caltech/space science institute

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has had its last close brush with Saturn’s hazy moon Titan and is now beginning its final set of 22 orbits around the ringed planet. The spacecraft made its 127th and final close approach to Titan on April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT on April 22), passing at an altitude…

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