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  • Cassini beams back last views of Saturn’s moon Hyperion

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    Cassini’s narrow-angle camera captured this view of Hyperion on May 31 at a range of 37,000 miles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spiraling around Saturn zipped past the giant planet’s oddball moon Hyperion for the last time Sunday, catching a final glimpse of the bizarre body’s porous sponge-like surface. Cassini flew about 21,000 miles (34,000…