NASA Cassini's Final Images of Saturn Stunned Me

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"The remnants of Cassini's fuel was deployed by it's thrusters to keep Cassini's antennas aimed at earth." Why did that sentence hit so hard?

I know Cassini wasn’t a living thing, but it’s kind of sad to think that it was being sent to it’s end and the computer was trying to figure out what was going on and save itself, without knowing it was intentional.

The fact that Cassini exhausted all resources while still sending data to earth til the last minute before dying just pulls at my heart strings.

Cassini’s last thoughts were the realization that something was very wrong! Does anyone else find that a bit heartbreaking?

Hearing him say Cassini's computers were trying to figure out what was going on and how to stay upright while it burned up in the atmosphere makes me feel like Cassini was alive and trying to survive the plunge. Kind of sad if you think about it.

i see so many people talking about the sadness of cassini, i believe it's because that probe represents the adventure and curiosity of the collective human mind, cassini really is an extension of mankind :)

This is why astronomy is so cool. Crazy to think that we humans have such detailed images of a planet about a billion kilometers away. Sometimes I picture aliens living in Saturn, looking up in the sky just seeing these beautiful rings

Thank you, Cassini. We salute you.. (Yes, I know it's an inanimate object but I think it deserves that much recognition for all the learnings we got from it)

How does Cassini's last moments have more character development and emotional moments than the majority of most movies nowadays.

Death himself "Time to go Cassini." Cassini "Was i a good space satellite?" Death "No.... You were one of the best"

An amazing mission, certainly one of the most successful spacecraft ever. A very complicated and ambitious mission, Cassini performed almost exactly as scientists had planned from launch to its end in the atmosphere of Saturn almost 20 years later . So many highlights - the rings, the lightning storms on Saturn, the hexagon at Saturn’s North Pole, the geysers of Enceladus, the Moon Iapetus with its mountain ridge and dark and bright sides, the sponge looking Moon Hyperion, the flying saucer shaped moons Pan and Atlas, the ice cliffs of Dione, the ice in the craters of the far out moon Phoebe, a ring of dust around Saturn far out from the planet, the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Titan, the Huygens landing on Titan and so on. One can only wish humanity can manage its affairs and problems on Earth as well as it does exploring the enormous diversity of the Solar System, Cassini being a perfect example of exploration at its best.

I nearly cried watching this. I can’t imagine the feeling of being on the team that made this possible.

Shout out to the camera man who recording the final moment of cassini during it descend

That description of Cassini plunging into Saturn was kind of emotional in a way. RIP Cassini, you brave thing. Well done.

I was saddened by the demise of the Cassini craft, but thankful for the valuable info it relayed back to earth. Thank you Cassini for being brave and showing us just how much we are still missing within our knowledge of our solar system, let alone the universe. RIP Cassini, your contribution to science will be studied for the next few years. Hopefully, before humanity’s wars and irresponsibility with this planet, our home Earth, becomes another barren world such as Mars.

When I was a kid, the astronauts were the heroes we looked up to. Star Trek was on TV and the advertising was full of futuristic imagery. I am now finding myself feeling like that about these probes and the teams who build, launch, and monitor them. Great video. 🏆

I love how we’re all paying respects to Cassini and the guys who were apart of it. Makes me feel good that so many people appreciate these things.

A toast to the brave little soldier that was Cassini. A space probe that performed its mission in duty to the very end. One final salute to you, little one.

Despite its computer telling that something was wrong, it preserved the last remaining energy to stay upright and send the final information it can back to earth. "And that's the amazing thing about the Cassini, it just keeps on giving". Man I teared up for the amazing adventure of Cassini. A legacy indeed.