ASTRUM: Saturn
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Saturn:
Her name is Cassini-Huygens and she is a lone explorer on a journey to Saturn’s rings and moons. After 7 Earth years of travelling through space, she has finally reached the sixth planet and its family of icy moons. The rings revolve around the world, as its moons orbit around the planet with its methane rivers and methane seas.
She coasts about its moons – especially on Titan and Enceladus which shows the possibility of harboring life. Drawing nearer to Saturn, she takes pictures of the spokes in the rings – fine particles of dust interweaving with the floating rocks. Scanning the rings, she hears them sing. Their resonances bounce with the waves of the moons, creating a chilling melody in orbital resonance.
Missing home, she turns around and takes a picture of the Pale Blue Dot 1.451 million kilometers away. She communicates with the humans, sending them her scans and updates on the planet’s storms on its opposite poles.
September 15, 2017
She is given her final assignment. With a last orbit around the toxic icy planet, she points her antenna to Earth to transmit her farewell. And using the last drops of her fuel, she plunges into the atmosphere, burning up to become the atmosphere herself.