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Cassini Assembly Note

Color image of spacecraft with a note on it that says "MIMI LEMMS unlatched! Do not touch!"

Source: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech

Published: December 16, 1996

A note left for engineers working on the assembly of the Cassini spacecraft at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1996.

More on MIMI: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/magnetospheric-imaging-instrument/

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