Cassini`s voyage helped make the solar system smaller. May the cosmic curiosity it whetted live on
(LA Times Dodgers)

More than 30 years after its mission was conceived and 20 years after its launch, the space probe Cassini will plummet early Friday to a planned death - a self-immolation, if you will, as friction from Saturn´s atmosphere turns it into a man-made meteor. Cassini has done its job well, its discoveries...