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Goodbye, cruel world! NASA's Cassini preps for kamikaze Saturn dive

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Re: Saturn's atmosphere is cold

Earths atmosphere is roughly between 200 and 250 K in the upper mesosphere. That's only a 100 degrees K difference. Yet returning vessels easily experience thousands of degrees of shock heating. A hundred Kelvin isn't going to change that much at all.

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