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Astronomy Cast Ep. 458: The Science of Cassini

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And now Cassini's gone. Smashed up in the atmosphere of Saturn. But planetary scientists are going to be picking through all those pictures and data for decades. Let's look back at some of the science gathered up by Cassini so far, and we can still learn from this epic journey.

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