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Fiery end to 20-year Saturn mission

Name: Fiery end to 20-year Saturn mission
Uploaded: 2017-09-15T15:28:25Z
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: It is mission accomplished for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. After spending 20 years exploring Saturn and its moons, its space odyssey has come to an end. In a dramatic finale, the probe plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere.

It is mission accomplished for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. After spending 20 years exploring Saturn and its moons, its space odyssey has come to an end. In a dramatic finale, the probe plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere.

It is mission accomplished for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. After spending 20 years exploring Saturn and its moons, its space odyssey has come to an end.

In a dramatic finale, the probe plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere, to applause and tears in the NASA control room.

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports.

By Bernard Smith