After a 20 year sojourn in the final frontier, at approximately 5:00 AM PT this morning, NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory lost contact with the Cassini spacecraft, which had plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere about an hour and a half prior, ending…
The Cassini spacecraft was destroyed at Saturn on Friday around 6:32 a.m. EDT. It took more than an hour for the probe’s last signal to reach antennas on Earth. NASA’s $3.26-billion mission was ended to prevent contaminating oceans of Saturn’s…
After nearly two decades in space and 11 years studying Saturn (and its myriad of moons), the Cassini spacecraft ended its mission at roughly 6:30 am Eastern on Friday, when it slammed into the gas giant’s suffocating atmosphere. It was…
Scientists aren’t exactly known for their public displays of emotion, but sometimes, that’s what a moment calls for. On Friday, as the long-running Cassini mission at Saturn came to a close, mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California…
Interstellar dust shines in starlight light-years away from Earth. Green curtains of the auroras shimmer over a ghostly landscape in Iceland. A famous crater stands out in relief against the surface of the moon. These are just a few of…
Popularized in recent years by people like Gary Vaynerchuk, the “side hustle” has quickly become a preferred mentality for aspiring entrepreneurs to make additional money on the side. As Visual Capitlsist’s Jeff Desjardins explains, the gist of it is: by…
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Cassini, one of humanity’s best spacecraft, is officially dead at Saturn Saturn from Cassini. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Miriam Kramer2017-09-15 11:59:09 UTC No one can ever say that Cassini went quietly into its good night. At about 7:55 a.m.…
Cassini says goodbye with its final photos from Saturn Saturn in one of Cassini’s last views of the planet. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Miriam Kramer2017-09-15 02:06:54 UTC As with all good things, they must come to an end, and…
Follow thousands of super-bright kids for four and a half decades and you learn a thing or two about how to raise a high-achiever. One of the biggest takeaways: Even kids with genius-level IQs need teachers to help them reach…