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Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission

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Deliberately entered Saturn’s atmosphere to protect Enceladus and Titan from contamination. Encounter class: end of mission.

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Assembled from 29 blocks · 1 evidence · 49 related

  1. Story
  2. Deliberately entered Saturn’s atmosphere to protect Enceladus and Titan from contamination. Encounter class: end of mission.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Saturn
  5. Cassini–Huygens
  6. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
  7. Connections
  8. Cassini–Huygens
  9. Saturn
  10. Jupiter
  11. Saturn
  12. Titan
  13. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
  14. Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
  15. Huygens lands on Titan — the only landing on an outer-system moon
  16. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
  17. Voyager 1
  18. Voyager 2
  19. Titan
  20. The Grand Tour alignment
  21. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
  22. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
  23. Pioneer 11
  24. Cassini–Huygens
  25. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
  26. Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
  27. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
  28. Evidence
  29. Launch, Jupiter flyby, Saturn orbit insertion, the Huygens Titan landing and the 2017 Grand Finale.
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