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waves. This Observatory is extremely dove to its end all while providing
sensitive as it can measure changes in humans with an abundance of data.
size as small as the width of a proton.
As Cassini leaped through Saturn’s
This technological advancement has atmosphere, it processed data about the
paved the path to finding out more upper atmosphere of Saturn, fulfilling
about new neutron stars, unknown its tasks until the last “breath”. This
celestial objects and even the source of was an important event as it marked the
dark matter. end of a historic mission that has
enabled humans to better understand
Data from the gravitational wave the solar system and search Saturn’s
signal: These plots show the strain in moons for signs of life. Mike Watkins,
the detector, which indicates that a director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion
gravitational wave from colliding black Laboratory said, "One of the greatest
holes was detected by LIGO on January legacies of the mission is not just the
scientific discoveries it makes, and
4th, 2017. what you learn about, but the fact that
you make discoveries that are so
1.Cassini’s Dive compelling that you have to go back.“
This year NASA’s spacecraft Cassini, "We will go back and fly through the
which had orbited Saturn for 13 years, geysers of Enceladus, we will go back
and look at Titan, because the Cassini
findings are just groundbreaking." This
shows that Cassini’s end marks the
beginning of deeper research and
greater development of scientific study.
This is the last image taken by NASA's
Cassini spacecraft before it dove into
Saturn's atmosphere. Cassini captured
this view on Sept. 14, 2017 at 12:59 p.m.
PDT (3:59 p.m. EDT; 19:59 GMT). It
shows the location where the spacecraft
would enter the planet's atmosphere
hours later.
