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Question
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to make final observations of which of the following planet
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Mercury
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Saturn
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Neptune
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Mars
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Cassini revealed the beauty of Saturn, its rings and moons, inspiring our sense of wonder.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mission ended on September 15, 2017, when Cassini’s trajectory took it into Saturn’s upper atmosphere and it burned up in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn’s moons, which might have offered habitable environments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 2010, Cassini began a seven-year mission extension in which the plan was to expend all of the spacecraft’s propellant exploring Saturn, which led to the Grand Finale and ends with a plunge into the planet’s atmosphere.
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