This has been an incredible mission. Ignoring all tremendously profound scientific discoveries that have been made, it would have been worth it just for the pretty pictures [1].<p>I hope someday we can have missions like that to Uranus and Neptune as well. That's still so far away, sadly.<p>[1] <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/halloffame/" rel="nofollow">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/halloffame/</a>
Can't believe it's been 10 years already. I still fresh rememeber the long night on #space IRC channel counting down the Titan descent and visualising the first transmitted data ( good job, Rene Pascal! ). Seeing the alien landscape for the first time gave me shivers and made me think I already live in the future.<p>What is the next major event?
Great way to celebrate is to give this another listen:
Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn</a><p>I haven't heard it myself for years but still think of it often. It is one of the most inspiring things I have ever heard.