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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft:
A Journey's End

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Cassini's journey to Saturn
began in 1997

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After a seven-year journey

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Cassini became the first
spacecraft to orbit Saturn

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Slowly, people started to
gather around these images

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which no one had seen.

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Close up images of flying right
over the tops of the rings,

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and they were ah,
just goose bumps.

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That's a memory I will
never forget.

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Cassini has been a voyage of
unprecedented discovery

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Revealing Saturn's rings

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atmosphere

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and moons

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Cassini has changed
the paradigm

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of where we might
look for life.

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You could be a world around
a giant planet

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and have conditions that
are right for life.

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In 2005, the Huygens
Probe detached

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from the Cassini Orbiter

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And successfully landed on
Titan, Saturn's largest moon

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Titan is an exotic world
with lakes and seas

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of methane and ethane

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Cassini is an international
collaboration

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It's just a
monumental machine.

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It's the individual people that

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all put their pride in
putting this together

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and building
it right.

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To protect the pristine
moons of Saturn,

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Cassini will plunge
into the planet

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Ending its thirteen-year
tour of Saturn

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And then, in Cassini's final
orbit, plunging into Saturn

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measuring the composition of
Saturn's atmosphere,

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sending back science til
the very last second.

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We'll continue to
learn from Cassini

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long after the end
of the mission.

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On September 15th, its
journey will end.

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But Cassini's legacy
is just beginning

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