In a dozen years orbiting Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has changed our understanding of liquid in the outer solar system.CreditCredit...NASA Where there is water, is there life? That’s the $64 billion question now facing NASA and the rest of lonely humanity. When the New Horizons spacecraft, cameras clicking, sped past Pluto in July, it represented an inflection point in the conquest of the s
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