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Cassini is running out of fuel. When the fuel runs out, scientists won't be able to control Cassini in the right way.
The Cassini spacecraft will carry out its final scientific mission to plunge into Saturn suicide on September 15, Popular Science reported on September 11.
According to international rules for planetary protection, people must not do anything that would harm these celestial bodies.
NASA controllers ordered Cassini to commit suicide by plunging through Saturn's atmosphere, according to the BBC. The ship survived for about a minute before breaking.
The Hubble Space Telescope of NASA discovered the strange planet WASP-12b is almost completely black, because it absorbs 94% of the light shining on the surface.
Cassini - the first spacecraft to carry out the mission to discover Saturn plunged into the atmosphere of this planet suicide, leaving lots of priceless scientific data…
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Each astronaut possesses and remembers a number, marking their order in the list of people launched into space.
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