NASA win an Emmy Award

Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing.

NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the Cassini Gran Finale (the moment the probe plunged itself to death into Saturn’s atmosphere).

This comes from NASA’s website, talking about what the space agency chose to release about the Gran Finale. “NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory created an event that brought our team and the public together for an amazing digital goodbye.

We needed to celebrate the mission’s game-changing science and engineering accomplishments AND share the excitement of a brand new adventure AND communicate why this beloved spacecraft must meet its end. All as the spacecraft whipped around Saturn every seven days—at speeds up to 70,000 mph.

The interactive side of Cassini’s Finale was strategically intensive and layered. The day-to-day campaign kicked off in April 2017 with Cassini’s first, daring ring crossing—into the unexplored space between the giant planet and its rings—and climaxed on Sept. 15, 2017 with moment-to-moment accounts of Cassini’s plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere with the spacecraft sending back science to the very last second.”

Congratulations to everybody involved. And there’s the video for your consideration. Enjoy!

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