CASSINI The Grand Finale 1: Steps onto the stage

摘要

After more than thirteen years orbiting the planet Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft will end its days on 15 September when it takes the final plunge into the atmosphere of the solar system's second biggest planet, exactly 19 years and 11 months to the day after it was launched. It is a fitting end to one of the most outstanding planetary voyages of the Space Age.