Chloe Leal - How to steer a spacecraft into Saturn

How to steer a spacecraft into Saturn - The Washington Post
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NASA's space mission "Cassini-Huygens" was created to visit and study Saturn, as well as enter its orbit (the first man-made object to do so). It has reached all of its goals and made many other discoveries on its long journey. It was deployed in 1997 and has been sending back home ground-breaking information ever since it arrived at Saturn in 2004. From this mission, we have learned of the liquid methane, Hydrocarbonous rains, and lakes and rivers which exist on Saturn's moon, Titan. We've been shown the geysers spewing from Enceledus, another moon of Saturn's. Cassini's final portion of its mission has been to circle and study Saturn's rings, and to collect samples. It will then knock on its strongest propellers towards the gas planet and dissolve into the atmosphere, becoming part of Saturn. This should occur the morning of September 15, 2017.
This article was written by Joel Achenbach on September 9, 2017 for the Washington Post. The article's primary purpose was to educate readers on the amazing recent discoveries that have been made of far outer space and that with this mission nearly complete and benchmarking the end of this early era of space exploration, a new one rises and aims for the ladders that all past missions have created for further discovery. I think a lot of people really wonder why we have NASA and what's so important about it and other private companies in the same business and I think this article is perfectly able to tell just one of our many scientific progressions and improvements, something I think should be shared. This new era of space exploration reminds me of the very first and ambitious one which began in 1957 by the Soviet Union and the United States forcing the Space Race into its climax by sending a manned mission to land on the moon in 1969.