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You voyaged in the trail of pioneers,<\/p>\n

To shed new light on Saturn and its rings;<\/p>\n

By imaging its many circling spheres,<\/p>\n

We glimpsed into the past of Earthly things.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your Equinox and Solstice both burnt bright,<\/p>\n

Revealing lightning in the darkest night;<\/p>\n

And through your Grand Finale in the sky,<\/p>\n

Your sacrifice means you shall never die.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2016 (Image Credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was the poet in residence for the European Geosciences Union 2018 General Assembly, during which time I wrote a number of different poems about the inspirational research that was presented there<\/a>. This is one of my favourites, a Heroic Rispetto<\/a>, inspired by the EGU 2018 Union Symposium on the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over a period of 13 years, Cassini successfully returned a huge amount of data that has since been used to enhance our understanding of Saturn and its system, including in-situ sampling of Saturn\u2019s upper atmosphere, and high-resolution imaging of Saturn, its rings, and several of its many moons.<\/p>\n

Cassini<\/a> was a collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Italian Space Agency, and the two different phases of the Cassini mission were termed Equinox and Solstice, ending with a dramatic plunge into Saturn\u2019s atmosphere on September 15, 2017, with the spacecraft continuing to record and transmit data until the very end.<\/p>\n

An audio version of this poem can be heard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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