Daring Dive

The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, 920 million mi. from Earth, dove to within 82,000 ft. of the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus Oct. 9 to sample the composition of water vapor geysers blasting material 300 mi. into space. The flyby at nearly 40,000 mph. was with Cassini flying...

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