black cat at the midnight

19-year-old Shiina Ringo 椎名林檎 - Japan - 1997

After 20 years in space, the Cassini spacecraft is running out of fuel. In 2010, Cassini began a seven-year mission extension in which the plan was to expend all of the spacecraft’s propellant exploring Saturn and its moons. This led to the Grand Finale and ends with a plunge into the planet’s atmosphere at 6:32 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 15.

The spacecraft will ram through Saturn’s atmosphere at four times the speed of a re-entry vehicle entering Earth’s atmosphere, and Cassini has no heat shield. So temperatures around the spacecraft will increase by 30-to-100 times per minute, and every component of the spacecraft will disintegrate over the next couple of minutes…

Cassini’s gold-colored multi-layer insulation blankets will char and break apart, and then the spacecraft’s carbon fiber epoxy structures, such as the 11-foot (3-meter) wide high-gain antenna and the 30-foot (11-meter) long magnetometer boom, will weaken and break apart. Components mounted on the outside of the central body of the spacecraft will then break apart, followed by the leading face of the spacecraft itself.

NieR Music Concert Blu Ray - The Doll’s Memories

Release Date: September 20, 2017

Price: ￥ 5,800

Feature:

High Definition Video Recording of NieR Automata Concert featuring NieR and NieR Automata OST

High Quality, Mixed, and Mastered Sound

Complete NieR Automata Reading Performance

Half Tokyo Tower 東京タワー - Japan - 1958