Cassini’s 20 year journey is ending tomorrow. By burning through Saturn’s atmosphere.
Cassini’s 20 year journey is ending tomorrow. By burning through Saturn’s atmosphere.
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Cassini’s 20 year journey is ending tomorrow. By burning through Saturn’s atmosphere.
You know, it’s sort of amazing how as human beings we can so quickly hate and despise one another for arbitrary differences in appearance, attire, or minor cultural differences…
And yet I can so instantly anthropomorphize what is essentially a computer built in 1997 in the space of a 6 minute long video, to the point where I become teary-eyed and feel like I’m watching the end of a Pixar movie.
That’s really not meant to be a political statement, either. I just think it’s amazingly weird of us.
By the end of that video I was like, “Farewell, brave explorer! You shall not be forgotten! ” like it was Magellan or someone being laid to rest. I was legitimately feeling proud for the accomplishments of device with the computing power somewhere around the level of a Playstation 2, if even that.
I feel like I’m one of the only people who gets teary eyed when I think about human exploration of space. It’s just so beautiful to think about.
There is a episode of ‘Arthur’ where Brain is excited that the Cassini space craft had launched. Then he gets all depressed that he’ll have to wait over 15 years for any data to come back. This makes me feel old.
i don’t even like space things and this video is really cool. heroic ending for a good machine
Yeah but if the Earth is flat isn’t Saturn flat too?
Even now I can’t understand why I almost cry every time I watch this video
Get your F’s ready for tomorrow.
Annnnnnnd now I’m crying at work.
It makes me think of the [XKCD comic](https://xkcd.com/695/) about the Spirit rover.
Something about robots “losing their lives” in the name of science and in pursuit of something that would have been unimaginable less than half a century ago makes me feel emotional feelings.
Any real life footage?
*”Where methane rivers run, into a methane sea, ruled by raging storms and delicate harmonies of gravity.”*
Such beautiful!
They built a robot in the 90’s, and a video about it, which was less than 4 minutes long, made me emotional in 2017.
Cassini was launched only about a month before I was born. It’ll be sad to see it go.
Anyone know where I can find music like the music in this video?
Does Saturn actually have a blue sky? It looked so earth like in this depiction, apart from the hydrogen surface.
I made a [little mashup](http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/59bac90a78564-cassini-with-gilmour.php) with a couple of videos on reddit today. It’s been a good run. Godspeed, Cassini. 🙁
I hope it awakens an ancient evil that has been lying dormant on the seas of Saturn.
Why did that video almost make me cry. I felt sad for the spacecraft
There was a super awesome documentary on Cassini and his team last night on NOVA on PBS. Def check it out! The probe has been circling around Saturn in between the rings and the surface of the gas planet!
Godspeed brave probe o7
What happens if Cassini survives the descent and becomes sentient as a result of traveling through Saturn’s atmosphere? What are we supposed to do?
Wow that was gorgeous
Wow that was gorgeous
I thought they announced it was just about to go through the atmosphere several times already. Last update I was surprised it hadnt at that point
What do they hope to find out in the final plunge? Measurements on atmosphere composition or pressure at certain intervals?
Thats sad
This is a nice way to promote space litter. Lol
Edit: Was a joke, clearly “Lol” has no meaning… /s
Project Lucifer
So I didn’t fully read the title before watching the video here are some of my thoughts as they entered my head
“Wow Saturn is really cool looking, I wonder what was the closest a person has ever gotten to Saturn… wait wtf am I thinking life isn’t sci-fi we have barely even gone to the moon… man we suck”
“Wait that’s tomorrow! Oh noooooo!”
Have they sent any more of these type of things out?
Here we go again, TARS
[Where is Cassini Now?](https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/where-is-cassini-now/)
[End of Mission Timeline](https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/cassini-end-of-mission-timeline/)
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But first, it. After a few minutes,. As long as we can. This has been. Joey’s little red. Sentence fragments can be.
Well can’t it make any pictures?
This really reminds me of [this](https://vimeo.com/108650530) video narrated with clips of Carl Sagan
Anybody else get a little choked up watching that?
Why this video made me crying?!?
Someone really should have explained the company’s Retirement Plan to Cassini.
That was beautiful.
It’s sad to see the mission end. If it ain’t vaporized it’ll be pretty cool for some species to find in 3.7bn years from now.
I love that video, it makes me think of government propaganda running on loop in a shuttle port of a (actually good) Total Recall movie.
Where can we watch this?
So the guy who made this beautiful video also made,
[Wanderers](https://vimeo.com/108650530), and (warning on this one, it’s loud) [Gosh](https://youtu.be/WjNssEVlB6M).
He likes space.
Huh, it’s finally coming to an end.
I had a professor in college who’s major life work was heading the imaging teams of Galileo and Cassini. He also discovered a couple of moons of Uranus. I wonder what he would have to say about the end of the grand Cassini project.
🙁
You done good, Cassini.
RIP Cassini
yeah, “protec the moons”.
We know nasa dont want their tech to fall in Saturnians hands.
I did a report on Cassini my Junior year of high school because of the “controversial” nature of its nuclear power. At the time not really caring about it, but have followed it since. Godspeed Cassini.
hey baby, you don’t need to jerk me off for 3min before telling me what you’re going to do.
;-;7
In my head I imagine this being like the terminator 2 ending, with the T-800 going into the molten metal, with the thumbs up.
They wanted to avoid Cassini colliding with any of Saturn’s moons because they might harbor the ingredients for life but that’s just based on our knowledge of life here on earth. What if Saturn has life the likes beyond which we can understand? Just saying. Either way that is an unbelievable feat getting Cassini out there! Congrats to all those that worked on it.
Damn that was a great trailer! When’s the movie coming out?
There are mountains on Jupiter? I thought there is only gas there?
What an incredible journey. Amazing what we humans can do when we put our minds to something.
A very well done video. Well worth the watch.
this video fits eerily perfectly with the blade runner soundtrack
Does anyone know the rate at which we can receive data from Cassini?
Like in Kilobytes per second?
I had no idea it was launched a day after I was born, thats pretty crazy. Definitely just had a weird moment when I saw “20 year journey” and thought “wow thats a long time,” and then saw the day it was launched and realized that I’ve been around for that long. crazy
what exactly did Cassini contribute to knowledge about Saturn? The basic composition of the planet and rings was already known. What new information was learned due to this mission?
Hmm…the question is: Who video-taped this?
I can’t believe no one has pointed this out yet, but this video was made with Erik Wernquist, the guy who brought us [Wanderers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6goNzXrmFs), the unbelievably beautiful little film about mankind’s potential next steps in exploring and expanding.
That’s how I wanna go out.
I’m not crying, you’re crying. Seriously, such a moving picture, does anybody know how much of it is real? I assume they used real photographs for textures and backgrounds?
Is that Meredith, from Grey’s Anatomy?
Knowledge of Cassini 2 anyone?
Goodnight, Sweet Prince.
It should just drop straight down into Saturn 🙂
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Magnificent, thank you for posting!
https://www.twitch.tv/nasa
5 hours 17 minutes until last transmission as of this post.
Even Cassini is done with 2017’s bullshit. Thanks for all the great science, farewell, goodbye, and amen.
Godspeed, Mr. Casino
Cassini: littering where no earthling has littered before
Why am I so emotional over a damn robot
That video was beautiful. Is it weird that I got choked up watching this?
I’m literally shaking, and have tears in my eyes
You that feeling then you try to grasp universe size? I’ve the same one after trying to realize what it took to create cassini, guide it to the right path etc