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A billion miles from home, running low on fuel, and almost out of time. After 13 years traversing the Saturn system, the spacecraft Cassini is plunging to a fiery death, becoming part of the very planet it has been exploring. As it embarks on its final assignment - a one-way trip into the heart of Saturn - Horizon celebrates the incredible achievements and discoveries of a mission that has changed the way we see the solar system. Strange new worlds with gigantic ice geysers, hidden underground oceans that could harbour life and a brand new moon coalescing in Saturn's magnificent rings. As the world says goodbye to the great explorer Cassini, Horizon will be there for with a ringside seat for its final moments. (BBC)
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Horizon: Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn is a very personal film, especially for the people who have spent decades with this research and suddenly had to say goodbye to their creation, which they literally whipped up from the cradle as a child, only to send it off to faraway places. Cassini, which is practically personified in the film, was indeed a technological landmark in the field of space exploration, and this documentary pays tribute to it and to the people who stood behind it and kept it running for many years.
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