What Cassini taught us about Saturn

In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades working in orbit around Saturn, ended its mission in a “Grand Finale.” But before the spacecraft went out in a blaze of glory by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere, it recorded subtle gravitational changes, which astronomers have now used to build a map ofContinue reading “What Cassini taught us about Saturn”

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