For thirteen years, a spacecraft called Cassini circled Saturn. It flew straight through the icy plumes erupting from the little moon Enceladus, tasted water and organic molecules in the spray, and then, in September 2017, was deliberately steered into Saturn’s atmosphere to burn up. It was destroyed on purpose, so that it could never contaminate [...] The post A probe called Cassini spent thirteen years orbiting Saturn, flew through the plumes of its moon Enceladus, tasted water and organic molecules in the spray, and then was deliberately crashed into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017 so it could not contaminate what might be a living ocean appeared first on Space Daily .
A probe called Cassini spent thirteen years orbiting Saturn, flew through the plumes of its moon Enceladus, tasted water and organic molecules in the spray, and then was deliberately crashed into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017 so it could not contaminate what might be a living ocean
