{"id":14168,"date":"2017-04-09T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14168"},"modified":"2017-04-07T23:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T03:35:18","slug":"video-briefing-previews-cassinis-grande-finale-at-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14168","title":{"rendered":"Video: Briefing previews Cassini&#8217;s Grande Finale at Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14148\" target=\"_blank\">earlier posting here<\/a> described the &#8220;<em>Grande Finale<\/em>&#8221; of the <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cassini spacecraft<\/a>\u00a0mission to Saturn. Here is a panel news conference held last week in which the panelists talked about the final activities of the spacecraft starting with a<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> final close flyby of Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan on April 22 [which] will reshape the Cassini spacecraft&#8217;s orbit so that it begins its final series of 22 weekly dives through the unexplored gap between the planet and its rings. The first of these dives is planned for April 26. Following these closer-than-ever encounters with the giant planet, Cassini will make a mission-ending plunge into Saturn&#8217;s upper atmosphere on Sept. 15.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9lFTYLr2AY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier posting here described the &#8220;Grande Finale&#8221; of the Cassini spacecraft\u00a0mission to Saturn. Here is a panel news conference held last week in which the panelists talked about the final activities of the spacecraft starting with a final close flyby of Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan on April 22 [which] will reshape the Cassini spacecraft&#8217;s orbit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Briefing previews Cassini&#8217;s Grande Finale at Saturn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,87,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-titan","category-et-al","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Gw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14274","url_meta":{"origin":14168,"position":0},"title":"Video: A 360-degree view of Cassini diving between Saturn and the rings","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This interactive video from NASA JPL allows you to scan Saturn and the rings as the Cassini spacecraft makes one of its dives\u00a0between the two before the\u00a0Grand Finale\u00a0in September. 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