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Cassini Spaceship

Nanette Piotrowski @nanette64 (20363) • Fairfield, Texas 15 Sep 17

After being launched in 1997 and taking 7 years to get to the outer edges of Saturn and another 13 years exploring the planet and its moons, it finally ran out of fuel and crashed onto the planet. Millions of miles were covered...

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First-ever video of lightning taking place outside the Earth!

justdroppingby @justdroppingby (296) • Philippines 16 Apr 10

Sometimes something happens that just humbles us and makes us realize that we might just not be the center of all existence. And the space probe Cassini just managed to do that - by capturing the first-ever video of...

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Lakes of liquid ethane found on Titan.

Uroborus @Uroborus (908) • Canada 31 Jul 08

NASA's Cassini mission has just confirmed the presence of large lakes of ethane on Titan, a large moon of Saturn. One lake is the size of Lake Ontario. Ethane is a hydrocarbon, which on earth can be found as a component of...

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