Watch NASA’s Cassini mission come to an end 20-years after launching

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will bid farewell later this morning, after spending 13 years orbiting the Saturn system. It’s a bittersweet goodbye — the probe was launched in 1997 and has successfully lasted through two mission extensions. Today it will dive into Saturn’s atmosphere, and break apart, ending its 20-year journey.Cassini has discovered plenty of things along the way, changing our understanding of Saturn’s moons while also mapping the planet’s rings a