Cassini's last year at Saturn

[Bill Phil]

Cassini was an awesome probe. It carried a lander to Titan, flew around Saturn and collected enormous amounts of data and took an enormous amount of photos. Rest In Peace, Cassini. Let's hope your successor can do some amazing work too.

[YNM]

Goodbye one hunk of radioactive metal !

 

 

Now, let's make another one to the bluer spheres ! To the workshop !

[Kaussie_Kockatoo]

Sad to see it go. Well, now, focus on the other outer solar system probe, Juno!

[RoadRunnerAerospace]

Goodbye cassini! May your fiery remnants be in piece! Too bad I couldn`t get off school 
Kinda a disbelief now......

[NSEP]

Juno, your next pal.

[Canopus]

19 hours ago, Tw1 said:

Do post photos if you're able to spend more time on it, and get it looking nice.

So i did finish it but i can't say i'm too happy about how it turned out

[Tw1]

4 hours ago, NSEP said:

Juno, your next pal.

I hope so, but it's quite a different probe. Spin stabilized, solar paneled (risk of micrometer damage?)  and a different range of instruments. But if it's possible to take it on a Jupiter (almost wrote Jool) moons tour afterwards, that would be amazing. But does it have the delta V?

2 hours ago, Canopus said:

So i did finish it but i can't say i'm too happy about how it turned out

Yeah, it gets the idea across, but not exactly a real show piece eh? To build this you must need the skills of a surgeon, and much patience. I wonder if that guy who made a paper kerbal a few years back could. 

My thoughts for if I try something like this again- stick parts on thicker card, print at larger size. 

 

Anyway, here are some Kassini photos:

Spoiler

 

Cassini has been made quite accurately here, with all instruments and most major systems represented- to the best of my knowledge. 

Final flyby. Maybe Tylo would've been a better choice, for its orbital position, but Laythe is also big, and has atmosphere same as Titan. Note only one engine is firing. 

And also, as a bonus, an image from an alternate reality where Cassini didn't like the idea of its mission ending, and decided to take it out on mission control.

(Because I used a few BD armoury parts to get the look of some  bits,  and figured I might as well use them,...)

Edited September 16, 2017 by Tw1

[NSEP]

2 hours ago, Canopus said:

So i did finish it but i can't say i'm too happy about how it turned out

Its not 100% beautiful, but hey, it does look like the real thing!

[EricL]

Goodbye Cassini. We'll never forget the contribution you made to science.

Next stop: Neptune! (or Uranus, maybe )

[Exploro]

14 hours ago, Canopus said:

So i did finish it but i can't say i'm too happy about how it turned out

Did you use regular copy paper? If so switch to cardstock. Having built a card model of Galileo and most recently one of Juno I can assure you'll have better results with the stiffer material.

Edited September 17, 2017 by Exploro

[cubinator]

A cool book with some of Cassini's best pictures captioned:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/the_saturn_system_090817.pdf

[Felsmak]

It has been three days, and I still can't believe Cassini is gone.

[sevenperforce]

This...is...amazing.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/TheSaturnSystemEbook/TitanLandscape/

 

[cubinator]

4 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

This...is...amazing.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/TheSaturnSystemEbook/TitanLandscape/

 

Lakes! And canyons carved by rain! It rains on an alien world which shares a sun with us! It would be so beautiful to watch the rain float slowly down to the ground in the low gravity.

[maceemiller]

Hi all.

Last night I watched a BBC2 documentary called Horizon : Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn and it was brilliant so I thought id share the YouTube video with you.

It is well worth the watch so if you do take time to view it please tell me what you thought of it 

 

Edited September 19, 2017 by maceemiller

[Vanamonde]

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