Alas, they depart so swiftly

[HopAlongBunny]

Cassini was bright eyed and full of vim when it got to Saturn
A scant 20 years on the job and it looks like the end is here.



Is there no viagra in space?

NASA site for Cassini:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/c...ain/index.html

[Gregoshi]

I'm really looking forward to looking at some of the images from the final couple of months, especially the detail in Saturn's cloud deck.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Jeez, it's as bad as raising parents. You spend nearly twenty years training them and then, when you step away for a few years to university, all that training goes down the tube and they revert.

[HopAlongBunny]

"Reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated!":

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/...nale/overview/

Looks like we are going to get a lot of new data and pictures before the final plunge; including first time look inside the rings :)

[Seamus Fermanagh]

This mission certainly got its money's worth.

[Gregoshi]

This image of the Earth and Moon through the rings is just amazing. Sure, they are just dots, but when you know what those dots are, it gets awesome.