Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
And this is it. On Friday 15 September, after 20 years in space, 13 of which spent in Saturn’s system, Cassini plunged into the gas giant’s atmosphere. NASA made this choice to prevented it crashing into and contaminating the moons…
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Next week I am going to attend the fabled Milford, the annual UK writing workshop for speculative fiction authors. I am excited and together nervous – this is the place you can expect your pieces to be torn to shreds,…
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In case you have been wondering what’s happening to Cassini, the glorious space probe in its last months of 13-year mission, here’s the fact: Cassini has just entered its final phase, executing the first in a series of five “ultra-close” orbits through…
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After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its rings. The spacecraft has got back in contact and it’s now beaming back all data collected during…
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We are less than one month from the Grand Finale, the moment Cassini is going to plunge deep into Saturn. As you can read on the NASA web page, “between April and September 2017, Cassini will undertake a daring set…
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It is not a real news that the glorious Cassini’s mission will come to an end in April 2017, when the spaceship will plunge into Saturn for what has been named “Gran Finale”. More precisely, starting from Nov. 30, 2016,…
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