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NASA to destroy its Saturn exploration mission

Name: NASA to destroy its Saturn exploration mission
Uploaded: 2017-09-14T19:50:09Z
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: After spending 20 years exploring Saturn and its moons, the Cassini space mission is coming to an end. NASA is preparing to destroy the spacecraft by sending it plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere.

After spending 20 years exploring Saturn and its moons, the Cassini space mission is coming to an end. NASA is preparing to destroy the spacecraft by sending it plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere.

After spending 20 years exploring Saturn and its moons, the Cassini space mission is coming to an end.

NASA is preparing to destroy the spacecraft by sending it plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere.

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports.

By Bernard Smith