8456 Cassini maneuvering between Saturn and his rings (video)

Cassini maneuvering between Saturn and his rings (video)



«Кассини» маневрирует между Сатурном и его кольцами (видео)

In the framework of the final mission in the area of astrozon Saturn “Cassini” started to perform a series of dives between the planet and its legendary rings. As emphasized by experts of NASA, informed in this area not went to any one spacecraft. Scientists hope that the device will be able to do between the internal atmosphere of the planet and its D-ring a new series of unique images and transmit them to the Ground.

The Cassini mission is complicated by the flight conditions any more-less significant-sized particle of cosmic dust risks damaging research equipment or to change the trajectory of its flight, however, researchers at NASA have come up with to use the main antenna as a shield, turning it in another direction.

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The amount of fuel in the probe, which was launched on 15 October 1997, at the end, so soon, experts will lose control of it. According to plans NASA, 15 September the unit will fall into the dense layers of the atmosphere of Saturn, and the mission will end. In the last months of life “Cassini”, they tend to get more interesting data to measure magnetic and gravitational field of the studied planets, study of the chemical characteristics of its rings. At the same time it is important not to introduce organisms from Earth that scientists believe could survive in the 20-year journey through outer space in the Cabinet.

Source: NASA

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