A Cassini Mission Update from Saturn, this week on planetary radio. Planetary Radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

The Cassini Project scientist Linda Spilker returns with the latest news from our only spacecraft

at Saturn.

It's healthy and still doing marvelous science, but will budget cuts take it down after 14 years in space?

Lots more for you on today's episode beginning with the Planetary Society blogger Emily

Lochu Wala.

Emily, several things to talk about this week, including apparently your

premiere performance as part of a NOVA, but we'll get to that in a moment.

How about, first of all, the image of the week? What are you going to pick from Casino? to that

that in a moment.

I think that my favorite one that I put together this week was from the fly-by that

Cassini did of Enceladus on October 1st.

As Cassini gets close to Enceladus,

Enceladus goes into Saturn's Shadow,

so it goes into Eclipse, which makes it tough to take photos,

but it's great for taking heat readings.

Then as Cassini recedes from Enceladus,

Enceladus leaves Saturn's shadow.

And so you get to see it come out of eclipse

and kind of have a strange kind of sunrise

as the sun is going through the uppermost levels of Saturn's atmosphere and

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