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astronomically and engineering(ly) the whole thing was fan-bloody-tastic.
to have sent up cassini 7 years ago to do laps around saturn millions of kilometers away, and then to release at excatly the right time and right position the probe to plunge into one the moons (seven years after launch). i am suprised anything worked at all!
the batteries in the probe could have died.
if the probe had been released at the wrong time it may not have bee able to beam images back to cassini.
they have enuff info from the probe to keep them going for a decade.
it was sheer brilliance.
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