Ah, the stars, the stars.

Among the little things that will mean something far after we're all gone away from this time and place. Cassini is about to crash into Saturn, tomorrow around 8am eastern time.

Just about the time I'm headed to work, so I won't be able to catch the video in live feed. But, if these pictures from the history of the program are a good guide, they will be spectacular.

And the measurements they get on the way down invaluable. The team's going to be wrapping up, but they're going out with one hell of a bang, pardon the pun.

On another note, the New Horizons probe is in the middle of a calibration check, insuring that its hibernation mode is going correctly as it makes its way out to the Kuiper Belt and MU69. For the life of me, I can't find the link that I read this morning, but this one should give you at least an idea of what they're up to in that group. And what little surprises they've accumulated along the way.