Cassini – level 1

22-09-2017 15:00

Cassini is a probe. People send it to space in 1997. It travels to Saturn. Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system.

It gets to Saturn in 2004. It flies around it 300 times. It watches Saturn and sends people information. We learn a lot thanks to the probe. We find Saturn’s new moons, for example. Six moons already have names.

Cassini serves for 20 years. This year, it goes into Saturn’s thick atmosphere. The atmosphere destroys it. NASA feels proud. Cassini was a good probe.

Difficult words: probe (a spacecraft without people), solar system (where Earth, the sun, and the other planets near Earth are), was (past of ’is’).

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