Los Angeles Times |
Saying Goodbye to Cassini, the NASA Mission That Transformed Our Understanding of the Solar System
The New Yorker Some merely fade away, like Voyagers 1 and 2, which, four decades after their launch, have departed the solar system and are now drifting into the wider cosmos, quite possibly for eternity. Many others, though, end their journeys abruptly and, often … Cassini’s voyage helped make the solar system smaller. May the cosmic curiosity it whetted live on |