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10 Things: Why Cassini Mattered

One year ago, on Sept. 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ended its epic exploration of Saturn with a planned dive into the planet’s atmosphere–sending back new science to the last second. The spacecraft is gone, but the science continues. Here are 10 reasons why Cassini mattered…

1. Game Changers

Cassini and ESA (European Space Agency)’s Huygens probe expanded our understanding of the kinds of worlds where life might exist.

2. A (Little) Like Home

At Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, Cassini and Huygens showed us one of the most Earth-like worlds we’ve ever encountered, with weather, climate and geology that provide new ways to understand our home planet.

3. A Time Machine (In a Sense)

Cassini gave us a portal to see the physical processes that likely shaped the development of our solar system, as well as planetary systems around other stars.

4. The Long Run

The length of Cassini’s mission enabled us to observe weather and seasonal changes over nearly half of a Saturn year, improving our understanding of similar processes at Earth, and potentially those at planets around other stars.

5. Big Science in Small Places

Cassini revealed Saturn’s moons to be unique worlds with their own stories to tell.

6. Ringscape

Cassini showed us the complexity of Saturn’s rings and the dramatic processes operating within them.

7. Pure Exploration

Some of Cassini’s best discoveries were serendipitous. What Cassini found at Saturn prompted scientists to rethink their understanding of the solar system.

8. The Right Tools for the Job

Cassini represented a staggering achievement of human and technical complexity, finding innovative ways to use the spacecraft and its instruments, and paving the way for future missions to explore our solar system.

9. Jewel of the Solar System

Cassini revealed the beauty of Saturn, its rings and moons, inspiring our sense of wonder and enriching our sense of place in the cosmos.

10. Much Still to Teach Us

The data returned by Cassini during its 13 years at Saturn will continue to be studied for decades, and many new discoveries are undoubtedly waiting to be revealed. To keep pace with what’s to come, we’ve created a new home for the mission–and its spectacular images–at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini.

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Fun Fact 285

Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States, was the first president to be born a United States citizen. Despite this, he is the only president who spoke English as his second language, seeing as he was of Dutch ancestry.

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Mermaid Magic

I was researching mermaids and the magic surrounding them and I couldn’t find a post or location that just had basic information about mermaids. A lot of them just felt like the person reading should have prior knowledge. So I decided to make this post of my research to help others that may be interested in these creatures. This post links to various articles that I found useful. 

Information / History 

Mermaids & Mermen: Facts & Legends Wikipedia Article on Mermaids  9 Mermaid Legends From Around the World Fantastically Wrong: The Murderous, Sometimes Sexy History of the Mermaid Mermaids in Mythology  Types of Mermaids  Anatomy Of A Mermaid

Mermaids in Magic

Water, Mermaids and Magick Mermaid article on Occultopedia  The Shocking True Story of How Mermaids Changed My Life Mermaid Magick Mirrors in Mermaid Lore  A Witch’s Guide to Mermaids  Merfolk Masterpost (types of merfolk) Powers of Mermaids 

Mermaids in Your Magic 

Contacting a Mermaid  Mermaid Offerings  More Offerings  Mermaid Tips  Crystals and Gemstones for water magic Mermaid Magic Spray (Spray to attract mermaids)  Seashell Correspondences Sea Witch Tips  Sea Magick and The Tide

Spells 

Mermaid’s Tears Siren Allure Spell Mermaid’s Breath  Mermaid’s Bath Spell Sea Witch Bath To Sink A Sailor Spell My Jolly Sailor Bold: Mermaid Love Spell Mermaid Dust   I hope that this was helpful to someone! 

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🌟 space facts !! 🌟

1. Venus spins backward, and we don't know why

2. Saturn is not the only planet with rings, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and the Earth have them too.

4. The Earth's rings are made of cosmic waste.

5. Nitrogen is a part of the composition of the stars, and of our dna.

6. Most of the stars we admire at night are actually dead.

7.The space probe Voyager 1 was send into space in 1977 with a special message for our neighbors of outer space. It was a disc that features pictures, sounds of the earth such as whale, a baby crying and greetings in 55 languages.

8. Venus is the brightest planet of our system, she is often mixed up with a star.

9. It's pretty easy to observe some planets such as mars, venus, jupiter, Saturn at night. It only require a clear night some patience + an app such as skywiew (free on appstore !) can be useful too.

10. If we were on the center of a black hole time would speed up so fast we would live the end of the universe.

11. Shooting stars don't exists, they are actually meteors showers.

12. Jupiter has 67 moons, Saturn 62, Uranus 27, Neptune 14, Mars 2 and the Earth 1.

13. Kepler 22 is an exoplanet also called super-earth that could (potentially) be habitable

14. It rains diamonds on Jupiter + Uranus

15. The moon moves 4cm further each year.

16. There used to be water on Mars, because her and the Earth had a similar beginning.

17. There's trace of organic life on Titan (one of saturn's moon).

18. Voyager 1 (launched in 1977) is closed to leave our solar system.

19. There's a vast ocean underneath the ice of Europa (one of Jupiter's moon).

20. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, in 2015 the probe new horizon approached pluto with the ashes of Tombaugh inside.

21. Pluto is smaller than the earth's moon.

22. Saturn could float into water.

23. Our cosmic adress is : planet earth, the earth-moon system, the solar system, the milky way galaxy, the local group, the virgo supercluster.

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