The Grand Finale, Proximal orbits |
The Grand Finale, Proximal orbits |
Sep 14 2017, 09:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Interior to Dione's orbital distance now.
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Sep 14 2017, 11:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Born in 1953. A time when public could still wonder about lichens on Mars and swamps or oceans on Venus. I became aware with Mariner 4 at Mars in 1965.
What a journey through a wonderland of worlds have we seen in the 50 some years since. VOYAGER gave us the introduction. CASSINI sealed the wonder at Saturn. I will never forget the moments of discovery throughout the Saturn system, from methane storms at Titan's south pole seen in 2004, to the weird walnut shape of Iapetus on new years eve 2005. Geysers on Enceladus, red streaks on icy moons.... mysteries to be further explored in the future. And through it all this forum UMSF. Thank you to the CASSINI team. Thank you to UMSF for a ride with folks who love what I love. |
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Sep 14 2017, 11:47 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Hi all. Watching here. My name is on Cassini . My night shift finishes at 6 am so I'll stop up and watch the end. ( I work from home ).
PS I had a cloud free view of the Total Solar Eclipse, was awesome. |
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Sep 14 2017, 11:58 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Images for the final wide angle mosaic are coming down now. I hope there are some folks here who'll work on assembling it. Looks like they shot 3 different versions, one each exposed for Saturn and the rings (RGB) and one (clear filter only) for the G ring, for a real HDR mosaic.
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Sep 15 2017, 01:45 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 27-August 14 From: Private island on Titan Member No.: 7250 |
I'm not crying, you're crying!
-------------------- aka the Vidiconvict
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Sep 15 2017, 02:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2090 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
And with that, I realize that tomorrow morning will be tougher than I thought... this mission has been there for basically half my life. Many of you others grew up with the Voyagers, Vikings, Galileo, and others, and I will have future missions to see, perhaps back to Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, but Cassini truly bridged the generations (in so many ways!)
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Sep 15 2017, 03:42 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I became old enough to kind of understand at the very end of the old era (1989, Voyager's last encounter and the Soviet planetary program's last gasp with Phobos-2), and Cassini and CRAF (it's twin, which NASA pulled out of and evolved into Rosetta) were at the time, along with a Pluto mission, the distant dreams on the horizon. Rosetta has ended, New Horizons, which I've had the privilege to be a part of, has been by Pluto, and tomorrow Cassini ends. Honestly, I feel strangely displaced.
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Sep 15 2017, 04:02 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 238 Joined: 15-January 13 Member No.: 6842 |
The final mosaic of Saturn is being downlinked. Here's a little part of it:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Maksim Kakitsev Gonna be another stunning backlit view of Saturn! -------------------- Curiosity rover panoramas: http://www.facebook.com/CuriosityRoverPanoramas
My Photosynth panoramas: http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx...;content=Synths |
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Sep 15 2017, 07:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all The way we look to a distant constellation That's dying in a corner of the sky These are the days of miracle and wonder And don't cry baby, don't cry Don't cry -Paul Simon |
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Sep 15 2017, 08:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Don't know why, but I wake up this morning with a song already in my head that goes like this:
This is the end, Hold your breath and count to ten, .......... Let the sky fall.... -Adele -------------------- |
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Sep 15 2017, 10:39 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 20-August 10 Member No.: 5417 |
And how can a probe die better than facing alien worlds,
for the knowledge of its creators, and the future of next probes? I would like to say "Thank you!" to everyone involved in this mission. Thank you - for what you did for me in last so many years. |
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Sep 15 2017, 10:46 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
To die like a meteor in a blaze of glory, gracing an alien sky after a long life of discovery and wonder, is somehow fitting, even poetic.
Thank you. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 15 2017, 11:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2090 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Looks like the final raws are down, showing the final target....
(and a final Captain's Log from Carolyn Porco: http://ciclops.org/) |
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Sep 15 2017, 11:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Thank you and farewell, Cassini.
You will be missed. -------------------- |
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Sep 15 2017, 12:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Thank you to the Team who built and flew the craft, and thank you to Cassini for showing us the wonders of the solar system.
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