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Re:Cassini Celebrates a Decade in Orbit Around Saturn by DCKing on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:24PM (#7966262)
This has been an incredible mission. Ignoring all tremendously profound scientific discoveries that have been made, it would have been worth it just for the pretty pictures [1].

I hope someday we can have missions like that to Uranus and Neptune as well. That's still so far away, sadly.

[1] http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/halloffame/

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Re:Cassini Celebrates a Decade in Orbit Around Saturn by InclinedPlane on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:36PM (#7966350)
Unfortunately, even if launch prices drop dramatically over the next several years the absence of Pu-238 production in the US will sharply limit our ability to send probes to the outer planets.
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