Wanderers – Humanity’s Future in Space<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nCassini’s been a rockstar spacecraft, setting record after record in space exploration, achieving dozens of firsts to its name. Almost all of our data on Saturn can be traced back to Cassini, which has been delivering for almost 2 decades. When its second extension ends in May 2017, the spacecraft will plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, in order to prevent contaminating Titan and other worlds with Earthly debris that may endanger the potential life they harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cassini is not just a spacecraft, but also a proud example of how far we’ve come as a species exploring the universe. It is the culmination of decades of manhours, and a marvel of engineering brilliance. Here’s to the orbiter that but let\u2019s make it memorable and salute this spacecraft for the insights it provided all these years. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been 19 years and 8 months since the launch of the two-part unmanned robotic spacecraft Cassini-Huygens that was sent to know more about Saturn, the sixth planet in our solar system. Cassini is the fourth space probe to Saturn, but the first-ever spacecraft to achieve orbit of the planet. Cassini, which has served as an encyclopaedia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[240,281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}