Crashing Into Saturn: This Cassini Mission Is the Most Epic Yet | Short Film Showcase

This short film shows a study of Saturn which is the sixth planet in the solar system. People like it because of its lovely rings. It is a gas planet.

The rings are made of ice, dust, and other space junk but they are pretty. Saturn also has at least one moon which could be made to support life if we did some work to it.

We’re not there yet technologically but this still interests scientists a great deal.

Key Takeaways:

• Cassini was launched in 1997 to explore most of the solar system.
• Cassini also carried a passenger the European Huygens probe. This is the first man made object to land on a planet in the outer solar system.
• And after 20 years in space Cassini is running out of fuel. Its final act of research was to pass between Jupiter and its rings before becoming a part of Jupiter.

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Reference:

• National Geographic (YouTube Channel)