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Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory by 2845197541 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:41AM (#15248482)
It can't take pictures in Jupiter's atmosphere?
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Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory by gregwtmtno on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:55AM (#15248622)
The spacecraft is at Saturn. During its final time, it will not have the transmission speed to send pictures, though it will send atmospheric measurements until the very end.
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Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory by JonDav on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:48PM (#15250535)
It could, but the Deep Space Network is the bottleneck 100kbit speeds and hours round trip makes getting the data difficult in best conditions, eg. orbiting out by titan
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