{"id":387370,"date":"2017-10-12T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9d4e093a1e452094c0453ceee0bdf806"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T13:20:03","slug":"reconstructing-cassinis-plunge-into-saturn-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=387370","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructing Cassini&#8217;s plunge into Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science instruments, along with readings from a variety of engineering systems. While analysis of science data from the final plunge will take some time, Cassini engineers already have a pretty clear understanding of how the spacecraft itself behaved as it went in. The data are useful for evaluating models of Saturn&#8217;s atmosphere the team used to predict the spacecraft&#8217;s behavior at mission&#8217;s end, and they help provide a baseline for planning future missions to Saturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science instruments, along with readings from a variety of engineering systems. While analysis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387371,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387370\/revisions\/387371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}