# Cassini's Grand Finale

Conor Nixon will cover the greatest highlights from the NASA Cassini mission from its earliest phases to the latest and most exciting results from the "Grand Finale" phase. The Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn since 2004, making unprecedented measurements of the planet, its rings and moons. Now in its final year, Cassini has begun close approaches to the outermost F-ring, investigating this ribbon-like structure before passing over Saturn's poles, diving into the narrow gap between the planet and the innermost main rings for a direct "tasting" of the ring "rain," and finally plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Education, Science, Space
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690600/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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