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Cassini blasted off from Earth on October 15, 1997. After a near-seven-year journey, it arrived at its destination, some 93 million miles from home. Yet it wasn’t until April 2017 that it began its final descent into Saturn. The Grand Finale began on April 26, when the intrepid probe went where nothing from Earth had […]
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How Cassini’s haunting Grand Finale unlocked Saturn’s secrets (VIDEOS)
December 31st, 2017 
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No Comments »Watching The Hawks – A Saturn Send-off for Cassini
September 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Watching The Hawks – A Saturn Send-off for Cassini Watching The Hawksyoutube.com The Cassini probe vaporizes in the atmosphere of Saturn, marking the glorious end of a 20-year mission. NASA astronaut and former ISS commander Leroy Chiao discusses the missions historical significance and accomplishments. Science author Kieran Mulvaney gives his take on the politics of […]
Cassini spacecraft completes ‘goodbye kiss’ and turns to face its fiery death (VIDEOS)
September 12th, 2017 Awake Goy The probe passed within 75,000 miles (120,000km) of the moon’s surface on Monday. That “goodbye kiss,” as NASA mission engineers call it, has altered Cassini’s trajectory just enough to send it hurtling towards Saturn where it will meet its end on Friday. “Cassini has been in a long-term relationship with Titan, with a new rendezvous […]
Posted in World News Tags: cassini, completes, Death, fiery, goodbye, Spacecraft, turns No Comments »Cassini enters fiery endgame as 20 year mission reaches final phase
August 14th, 2017 Awake Goy The Cassini spacecraft completed the first of five close flybys of Saturn as it comes to the end of its 20-year mission. It will culminate in a fiery farewell as it makes a one-way trip to the gas giant’s surface on September 15. “As it makes these five dips into Saturn, followed by its […]
UN report: Ukraine forces guilty of shocking human rights crimes
June 16th, 2016 Awake Goy The 13threport of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine between 16 November 2015 and 15 February 2016, when the Minsk Agreements were in force, has come as a shock to Kiev. According to the UN, more than three million people live in the areas directly affected […]
Thousands Witness Huge ‘Floating City’ In The Sky Over China
October 17th, 2015 Awake Goy On October 7th, residents in the Guangdong province of China witnessed what appeared to be a huge floating city in the sky which mysteriously disappeared after a few minutes. A few days later people in parts of the province of Jiangxi also reported sighting a strange ghostly city in the sky. Some say it was […]
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