Long Live Cassini, 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.

I was with hundreds of Cassini team members before dawn on Friday, September 15th.

You'll join them and me as we waited for the fiery end

of a great voyage of exploration.

Then we'll race over to the Jet Propulsion Lab

to hear from the leaders of that voyage and others.

Not a lot of science this time, we will instead celebrate the human spirit and the quest for

knowledge.

We begin with the Planetary Society's CEO Bill Naut. the be here to help us celebrate the late great Cassini.

Oh man, so it launched the same year I joined the board of directors of the planetary

society.

Wow.

When out it took seven years to get, seven years to get to Saturn and then after it did, it was just one extraordinary

discovery after another, including jets, apparently jets of water at Enceladus, an ocean at Enceladus,

this crazy hexagonal North Pole, stable weather system. The data will be analyzed for

people have said it for decades to come. Many PhD thesis will be written as

result of this mission.

And it gets in another thing, Matt, I talk about all the time,

you know, what are you guys going to do with all this information?

We don't know.

That's why we gathered all this information.

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