It has been ten years since Cassini first stepped foot (or should that be antenna?) into the domain ruled by majestic Saturn, resplendent with its crown of rings and retinue of dutifully orbiting moons. In that time Cassini has discovered astonishing geysers on Enceladus, hydrocarbon lakes on Titan and an enormous equatorial wall of twenty-kilometre tall mountains on lapetus. It has seen up close a storm that threatened to engulf the ringed planet, watched fresh satellites emerge from the rings and seen views of the moons and planet aligned with one another that appear to have come straight from science fiction. All good things, however, must come to an end.
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