The Cassini mission, undertaken as a joint effort by NASA, European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency, concluded with dramatic images of Saturn's rings. The images were shot just before Cassini was destroyed upon entering the atmosphere of Saturn.
The mission started 19 years ago, when a rocket carrying the Cassini payload left Earth. It spent 13 of its 19 years in space orbiting and studying Saturn and its moons.
Check out the images below to see the last images from what was unquestionably a successful mission.
Earlier in the year, NASA was taking submissions to send messages into space. The messages were being sent to Voyager 1, which is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth. The Voyager 1 launched 40 years ago.
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