After more than a decade exploring Saturn and its moons, the Cassini mission is in its closing act. Cassini's last year is an encore performance stuffed with science, including a final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere.
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The research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and was sponsored by the US Government.
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Edgington, S., Spilker, L. Cassini's Grand Finale. Nature Geosci 9, 472–473 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2753
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