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I saves the world with space this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

A conversation with the Science Guy, just days after the premiere of his Netflix TV series that prominently features space exploration

and space science. No surprise there. Later we'll get Bruce Betts' take on the night sky and hear a random space factor too,

Emily Lock de Walla. He is not yet back from sabbatical, but she will be next week.

Planetary Society digital editor Jason Davis is here to talk about the Week. Jason you wrote last week about well an event that's already underway happened over the weekend

tell us about the the latest from Cassini. Yeah so the spacecraft did its final close flyby of Titan.

After all these years, all these cool images and flybys

and on the outer side of Saturn's rings,

it went by Titan closely for the last time.

And that Bennett's trajectory,

this was on purpose, of course, onto this new path

that's going to send it actually

between the planet and the rings.

So right now it's kind of arcing up over the planet

and getting ready to plunge between the planet and the rings

for the very first time.

This is the beginning of what we've been calling.

Linda Spilker and I talk about this, the grand finale.

Yeah, yeah, the big grand finale, so we get onto this new trajectory.

Twenty-two orbits, I believe, is the count, and then the spacecraft will be intentionally sent into the planet itself.

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