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Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory by acomjean on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:19PM (#15250901)
The NYtimes has a remarkable page of images taken by Cassini (moons and saturn). Space being stark and empty is strangely movingly beautiful sometimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/14/science/cassi...

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Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory by tim333 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:00PM (#15253492)
Their recent video is cool also https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000005343498/cassin...
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Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory by dmix on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:44PM (#15253955)
The writing of the narration was really excellent: "Some of Cassini's orbits took it behind Saturn, an alien sunset before hours of darkness".

The six sided hexagon hurricane on the top of Saturn was the most fascinating to me, especially when they superimposed the size of earth over it saying it could "swallow 4 earths"...

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