Follow Cassini’s final moments before it plunges into Saturn

At 7:54 AM ET, Cassini will enter Saturn’s atmosphere at about 1,190 miles above where we think the planet’s cloud tops are. It will be traveling at approximately 70,000 miles per hour. The little spacecraft that could will continue to transmit for as long as it possibly can, firing its control thrusters in short bursts …

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