After 13 years of observing Saturn, its rings and its myriad moons, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is less than three weeks away from a fiery, brutal end.
Early in the morning on Sept. 15 the aging spacecraft will hurl itself into Saturn’s atmosphere at speeds of more than 75,000 mph.
It’s a deliberate death plunge from which it has no hope of returning.
Within three minutes of diving into Saturn’s tenuous upper layers, the two-story-tall spacecraft will be torn apart.
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