Interesting enough, we had a satelite on Saturn, we have probes and explorers on Mars and 2 crazy probes on interstellar space outside of our solar sytem, that makes me feel like us humans are advancing on tech. 🖖
That space probe carried the hopes and dreams along for the ride. It's similar with the Voyager probes except those didn't have to burn up to safe guard any possible, undiscovered ecosystems. Also, I was a senior in high school when Cassini was launched. The Voyager probes were launched a year before I was born. For me, Cassini also brings back memories of my senior year in high school. The data that Cassini collected will be studied for years to come. It is Cassini's enduring legacy. I don't know if I will live to see Uranus or Neptune get probes placed in their orbits. I was in elementary school when Voyager 2 flew past those planets so I would like to see probes return to them. With current propulsion and economics, a trip to Uranus or Neptune will take longer as the probe can't travel too fast or it will fly by. To go faster, a probe would have to have to carry a rocket to slow the probe down so the planet could capture it into orbit, but that would be expensive. I may get to see a space mission to Uranus and/or Neptune be launched, but I probably would have died before a probe would of even reached those planets.
That was the animation provided during the NASA stream, last night, so it makes good sense to use it. here, since it gives a good idea of what was going on with the orbiter.
Joe Scott i agree totally with you. allot of thought, care and attention to detail from the whole mission was summed up rather nicely. And i see the looney recruitment brigade are advertising again ^^^
RIP Cassini Launched when i was in 7th grade. Conducted one of the most successful missions in living history which provided mountains of knowledge, then ended its journey in the most glorious locale our solar system has to offer. It doesn't get much better than that. It's interesting to look back at all the events Cassini was in space for. y2k, 9/11, the iraq and afghan wars, the 2012 "apocalypse", too many personal (both of my grandfathers and a grandmother) and celebrity deaths to mention, observation of gravitational waves and the higgs boson, the smartphone revolution...a lot happened with Cassini above us
manifestgtr Cassini.. was a god! A true god who launched into space before I was born, before anyone who isn't an adult was born. Examined Saturn for 13 years, and landed a probe on Titan. But, now *sigh* she must go! Farewell, Cassini. Farewell.
Absolutely man. I'd been tracking this mission for quite a while. While it's sad to see Cassini go, it's also a good time to celebrate all the things it accomplished. A testament to human innovation and exploration
5th grade for me. I remember watching the launch on television. I hear about it again for it's flyby of Earth in 99, and again once it discovered lakes on Titan in 2004. Great comment, it is amazing how much has changed since Cassini left Earth.
Imagine in like 50 years or 100 years if ever humans step into the planet and see the last parts of Cassini and well remember back in 2017 how Cassini crashed:o
I know, and people say scientists are unemotional, cold & logical etc. etc. It's not true. We all get emotional, scientists just get emotional about different things. You have to _love_ science to be a good scientist. In other words ... if the science itself doesn't make you emotional you're never going to cut it. In this case however it's especially poignant because here we have a vessel ... it's like me with my car, I loved it - what can I say? haha I moved to a different country so I gave it away to a cousin. I got so emotional over it, it surprised me and I was embarrassed but that car had served me well, it had gone above and beyond everything I had expected of it and I was sad to be parted from it. I imagine the Cassini team and many others feel the same way about that amazing little machine.
Over a hunk of metal that I followed on and off only when I heard something on the news about, did I ever pay any attention to it. I never thought I would get this emotional about it. But you see the story of this little satellite; all its accomplishments, where it has gone, what it's been thru, what it has done for us and humanity, and the fact it has been someone's way of life for the past 20 years, and now it's come to an end? You can't help but be moved by it. I don't get how for some people this is nothing, that they don't care bout things like these. I feel proud and glad that I am someone who gets it... Thank you Cassini and everyone involved on this project and adventure.
Me too... I kept telling myself, "don't cry, it's not the death of a beloved anime character", but it didn't work... on a more serious note, if this is so emotional for us, who only knew about Cassini from the news and science articles on the net over the years, I can only imagine what it must be like for the people who built it and sent it to space and worked with it for 20 years
Dear Fraser, as much as I always love your work: This was the best I think. And yes, I cried. I cried when I watched it live, and now I do it again. It was an honor to be alive that time. And you are blessed to be able to make videos like this. Thank you, my friend!
The moment when Cassini dove into the atmosphere... the feeeeels! My eyes started leaking at that point. Farewell, Cassini... thank you for all these years of taking us a bit further into knowledge and progress, and thank you, everyone at NASA who spent all these years making that possible. This last journey couldn't have been easy for you. Also, the brilliance of this video made me subscribe to you, Fraser Cain
Until it felt the pressure of the atmosphere and tried its best to correct and hang in there. If you watch the live event on NASA you can see it puts up a fight trying to keep its transmitter aligned with earth and then the signal fades in and out, drops the the X band, but hangs in with S band for another 20 sec, dies and comes back a faint signal for a few sec and gone :( They declared another 45 sec and it was to disintergrate and vaporize.
All the people involved in this great achievement must be feeling so many different emotions, especially when the craft met its end. I take my hat off to you all!! Great video as well.
The first two songs are from a soon-to-be released album about Cassini by Dave Wesely. The final song is Summer Kiss from Parsec's Press Fire to Begin album.
Thanks for making this video. The end of it made me emotional. I felt how lonely Cassini would be feeling, floating in a huge never ending emptiness... :'(
Isn't it so ironic that we're so advanced in science and we continue to make amazing discoveries and excel in astronomy while many people still believe in flat earth... Lol
Jacinda, I can promise you that 90% of the 'flat earthers' are just bored trolls looking for some easy lulz. The real whackos sit in their insular chatrooms and forums talking to each other, not inviting challenges to their beliefs on TH-cam.
Watched the direct live stream from JPL/NASA. Sad moment after 2 decades of discovery and achievement. (My dad's last mission before he went into retirement.)
Absolutely stunning presentation, Fraser. I felt the same well of emotions that rose in me while watching the live coverage of Cassini's swan song this morning. What a magnificent human achievement! Cassini delivered a gift of such a grand scale. Your presentation was fitting of that gift. Thank you so much for sharing. Steve
Thanks! Chad and Fraser really made a beautiful video. I had a blast providing the music. Thanks for the compliment! The first two pieces are from my upcoming album based on the Cassini mission. The synthwave track is "Summer Kiss" from my album "Press Fire To Begin". Here's a link if you want to check it out: itunes.apple.com/us/album/press-fire-to-begin/id1250459888
Love the editing and music. Watched this video multiple times and still I watch this when I feel sad. This refresh my mind and make me realise that we are just a dot in this universe, so enjoy your life.
Wow...I actually shed tears after it's demise when entering Saturn's atmosphere 😢 R.I.P and thank you for all of the work you've done for many years, Cassini maybe just a tool for research but watching it's final moments was just....so emotional for me
I was a 20 yr old machinist working in the pipeline and shipping sector. We had enormous boring mills with 25 ft tables that could handle the big pieces. It really wasn't anything special at the time.
I’m extremely excited to announce the release of my new album, “Cassini“! Thanks to everyone in the comments here for their kind words and compliments on my music! Here is a link to the album: davidjosephwesley.bandcamp.com/album/cassini
Sad to say id got emotional when i see this.. thank u cassini for the good job youve done.. ur unbelievable such a very nice.. without you, you cannot share the info and the beauty of planet saturn.. thank u very much cassini.
Super cool. The digital recreation of the passing through the rings and the reentry is outstanding! A movie should be made about exploring the gas giants. It'd be spectacular! ^_^
If a technology to get us in and out of Jupiter clouds could be developed, I wonder if liquid filled space suits could help astronauts withstand the force of gravity there. Maybe having the entire spaceship filled with it would serve both for buoyancy and radiation shielding. ^_^ EDIT: Saturn's almost that of Earth's tho...
Wonderfully fascinating recap of the Cassini probe and its journey to the Saturn system. I wonder if any of the many thousands of young students excelling in STEM and other academic disciplines will get to dream big for humanity and participate in such grand technological achievements. Science and technology promise humanity a place among the stars but only so long as military interests ride shotgun all the way. All we need do as a species is survive the temperament of the 21st century and we may get a chance to make Cassini, James Webb and our other great voyages of discovery actually mean something.
Damn, this is heavy..I feel a bit closer to Cassini being nearly the same age as me. (21) I was still drooling on myself when this magnificent craft left our sphere of influence forever. Goodnight, Cassini. You've served us very well and you certainly did not go gently into that good night.
A beautiful homage to such a grandiose project, now ended. I was so young when the orbiter launched, I never properly payed attention to it or it's mission, taking for granted the information yielded, until it's last moments, for shame. So glad I got to witness the final moments of a 35 year long project around such a beautiful mission. 20 years since launch, 15 years in the making, and to end it the way they were able to - gorgeous, breathtaking, wonderful.
Farewell Cassini and thanks Cassini team. The fist time I see the ad before a video is the same subject as the video it self. :) Thanks for your vids. Very nice to watch all of them.
And there are those would argue that NASA is just a socialist special interest project that needs to be cut because socialism is bad Um Kay. IMHO I have always felt my tax dollars have/are rarely used better and offer no greater return than the achievements our space agency have accomplished thru the decades. Certainly there have been tragedies and fiscal calamities but lets face it space is hard and until the private sector can take over NASA laid all the groundwork and did all the heavy lifting before Space-X and the other commercial private sector entities had the chance to come to fruition and become the next standard bearer. Well Done NASA/ESA and thank you Casini team for a truly stunning achievement.
It wasn't my intention at all to politicize anything I was just stating how proud I am of NASA and the mission results and feel like it was money well spent and will continue to bear fruit for many more years. I wish he was just some lone crackpot blogger with a myopic view of the world, sadly he isn't alone and millions of others who share similar views on the importance of NASA and science in general are demanding their representatives cut the budgets for these agencies and future scientific programs. If it's too political to express and opinion that I feel we get good value for our money than I guess that makes me a political hack.
Cassini will never be forgotten from history or in future. it was the best! although voyager sister spacecrafts flown in the 70's have done great explorations in space history, no other spacecraft have done such a close and immense discovery of a hostile planet like Saturn and given its life for sciences good. Cassini will be remembered forever! I salute the work. Question is, why build such a beautiful spacecraft like cassini and then in the final moments give it to destruction without no reason? only humans who built it can answer that!
Probably one of the most exciting, successful space mission of mankind. We are small, yet we have, according to our potential, achieved so much. Thanks Cassini. #RIPCassini Great video.
I don't know why, but when it got to cassini's final descent, it made me sad. But I'm extremely grateful for the amount of knowledge this special spacecraft gave us. I really doubt if any one from the team that worked on cassini will read this, but thank you.
Over a hunk of metal that I followed on and off only when I heard something on the news about, did I ever pay any attention to it. I never thought I would get this emotional about it. But you see the story of this little satellite; all its accomplishments, where it has gone, what it's been thru, what it has done for us and humanity, and the fact it has been someone's way of life for the past 20 years, and now it's come to an end? You can't help but be moved by it. I don't get how for some people this is nothing, that they don't care bout things like these. I feel proud and glad that I am someone who gets it... Thank you Cassini and everyone involved on this project and adventure.
great video Fraser, love the music too. Its incredible to think how long Cassini has provided science and will continue to provide it! Its a shame flagship missions seem to be a thing of the past. I hope this will perhaps inspire a next big mission to the Ice giants perhaps ?
Phenomenal! Planetary science is the way to go; life may be much more common than we think, even in our own solar system. We just have to be aware that it may look very, very different. Very exciting; congrats & a huge "thank you" to the entire Cassini team - all of you did a marvellous job !
Wow... The NASA animators outdid themselves on this piece. Parts were more like works of art. Excellent depiction of the sense of scale -- tiny robot flying past a Gas Giant. 11/10!
TheSixthSola I really like the music reminds me a lot of Miami Vice with Crockett brooding alone on a beach smoking a cigarette after killing a drug lord...hauntingly beautiful...🐢
Tears in my eyes ... Didn't know it did so much of precious work ...its life Connected directly to human daily life through research papers and exploration... Music was so engrossing that my mind was full of bliss watching the hard work put by the human civilization... Love you Cassini and all the scientists who worked on it
What you don't understand is that this is a small step on the road to helping raise everyone on Earth to a better life. It's not going to happen in my lifetime or even maybe in my children's lifetimes, should I ever have them. But, if we keep exploring, keep learning and keep bettering ourselves, then everyone benefits. Dysputant said it more poetically than I could. And, if history has proven anything to me, it's that the best way to unite people is to show them that there's more to achieve, more to see and more to do. Given purpose, we are capable of amazing things. Left to flounder, we turn on each other. The United States has never been more united than during the Space Race. Out there is our future and the way we survive not just as a species, but as humanity.
Through discoveries like this, we find loopholes in nature that we exploit to invent technologies to improve life and reduce suffering for living beings. You mocking this noble effort makes you the villain.
It was an amazing mission from start to finish. Just imagine if its high gain antenna had been working for the entire mission. Cassini still did awesome without it. One of NASA's finest exploration missions to date that's for sure. We need more probes in orbit around more planets, like all the planets...
Jamie Godman cgi fake come on how are we gonna go to Saturn when we can't go to the moon sry to much radiation but you keep believe I got maybe one day
+Jordanzillia Gillliam first of all Cassini was an unmanned mission you idiot. There were no humans on board. And we can go to the Moon with people if the hardware was built for it. We went to the moon back when the Saturn V rocket and Apollo spacecraft were being made. NASA no longer flies either of them. So that is the only reason we can't go to the Moon right now. We have the knowledge and technology to do so. As far as your CGI claim, I say prove it. Prove that the Cassini mission was just fake CGI. That's right you can't because there is no proof of any fakery, except for your so called intelligence, that's the only thing being faked.
May Cassini always be remembered for all the knowledge brought to human kind about the amazing Saturnian System. One of the best space missions humans have ever pulled off.
Q) If Voyager 1 reaches an alien planet wouldn't it burn up in the atmosphere, making the gold disc a complete waste? Alternatively, if the planet does not have a dense atmosphere then wouldn't it hit the ground at comet speed destroying the disc once again. Also isn't it possible that alien species could consider this as an act of war?
A) The machine would burn up immediately rendering the disk kind of useless(unless some miracle happen). It may or may not be completely broken. No, like us , we would probably think of it as a hoax or some random guy lying to poeple on the net.
Omesh Singh thats relative velocity from launch... the planet it would crash on would have some relative velocity to voyager as well. So if it's moving in the same relatove direction, the impact is greatly reduced. But what if it's relative motion is against the probe, well... hehe
I apologise for catching you out here Fraiser, my comment was a slight whip at the cgi image. Nonetheless I thank you for responding amd mean it in jest sir. Keep up the fabulous work.....
Never thought id get emotional over a satellite
*space probe
well it was in Saturn orbit for 13 yrs. I think that's ,long enough to count as a satellite.
Interesting enough, we had a satelite on Saturn, we have probes and explorers on Mars and 2 crazy probes on interstellar space outside of our solar sytem, that makes me feel like us humans are advancing on tech. 🖖
That space probe carried the hopes and dreams along for the ride. It's similar with the Voyager probes except those didn't have to burn up to safe guard any possible, undiscovered ecosystems. Also, I was a senior in high school when Cassini was launched. The Voyager probes were launched a year before I was born. For me, Cassini also brings back memories of my senior year in high school. The data that Cassini collected will be studied for years to come. It is Cassini's enduring legacy. I don't know if I will live to see Uranus or Neptune get probes placed in their orbits. I was in elementary school when Voyager 2 flew past those planets so I would like to see probes return to them. With current propulsion and economics, a trip to Uranus or Neptune will take longer as the probe can't travel too fast or it will fly by. To go faster, a probe would have to have to carry a rocket to slow the probe down so the planet could capture it into orbit, but that would be expensive. I may get to see a space mission to Uranus and/or Neptune be launched, but I probably would have died before a probe would of even reached those planets.
Oh, I totally do over all of them. It's hard not to anthropomorphize them.
This was awesome. Kudos to the editor of this.
Yeah maybe but they used way to much animation content.
That was the animation provided during the NASA stream, last night, so it makes good sense to use it. here, since it gives a good idea of what was going on with the orbiter.
Joe Scott i agree totally with you. allot of thought, care and attention to detail from the whole mission was summed up rather nicely. And i see the looney recruitment brigade are advertising again ^^^
oops sorry Trevor, my bad. I didn't mean to give you the impression i actually give a f**k. Hate it when i do that
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Kudos to the cameraman taking such lovely shots of Cassini as it orbits and disintegrates over Saturn.
RIP Cassini
Launched when i was in 7th grade. Conducted one of the most successful missions in living history which provided mountains of knowledge, then ended its journey in the most glorious locale our solar system has to offer. It doesn't get much better than that.
It's interesting to look back at all the events Cassini was in space for. y2k, 9/11, the iraq and afghan wars, the 2012 "apocalypse", too many personal (both of my grandfathers and a grandmother) and celebrity deaths to mention, observation of gravitational waves and the higgs boson, the smartphone revolution...a lot happened with Cassini above us
manifestgtr Cassini.. was a god! A true god who launched into space before I was born, before anyone who isn't an adult was born. Examined Saturn for 13 years, and landed a probe on Titan. But, now *sigh* she must go! Farewell, Cassini. Farewell.
Absolutely man. I'd been tracking this mission for quite a while. While it's sad to see Cassini go, it's also a good time to celebrate all the things it accomplished. A testament to human innovation and exploration
5th grade for me. I remember watching the launch on television. I hear about it again for it's flyby of Earth in 99, and again once it discovered lakes on Titan in 2004. Great comment, it is amazing how much has changed since Cassini left Earth.
manifestgtr kool i found cassini last week
manifestgtr ikr I found about Cassini last week. Kinda sad how something so successful has to go though :/
music choice was 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿 for the whole thing
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Yup, David did a great job. Check out his site for more tunes: www.djwfilmmusic.com/
When I heard the last song start I thought it would have been another spacey ambient track but the synthwave drop was just sick.
@@Noman1000 it got me in the feels man i love that stuff i may be 18 but i love the 80s vaporwave feel
Congratulations NASA/JPL on an amazing mission.
Goodbye Cassini, you are now, and forever part of Saturn.
Farewell into the unknown friend.
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juste kevin ESA developed the Huygens probe that was sent to Titan.
JPL in Pasadena, California was Mission Control for Cassini.
Sad to say goodbye, but it was great to get all the science.
Imagine in like 50 years or 100 years if ever humans step into the planet and see the last parts of Cassini and well remember back in 2017 how Cassini crashed:o
She went out in a blaze of glory. Well done Cassini!
Such a great mission.
I have to admit that I got a little emotional seeing this
I know, and people say scientists are unemotional, cold & logical etc. etc. It's not true. We all get emotional, scientists just get emotional about different things. You have to _love_ science to be a good scientist. In other words ... if the science itself doesn't make you emotional you're never going to cut it. In this case however it's especially poignant because here we have a vessel ... it's like me with my car, I loved it - what can I say? haha I moved to a different country so I gave it away to a cousin. I got so emotional over it, it surprised me and I was embarrassed but that car had served me well, it had gone above and beyond everything I had expected of it and I was sad to be parted from it. I imagine the Cassini team and many others feel the same way about that amazing little machine.
The fact that Curiosity sings happy birthday to itself every year shows how emotional scientists really are.
Space stuff is my favourite thing to cry to. (:
Over a hunk of metal that I followed on and off only when I heard something on the news about, did I ever pay any attention to it. I never thought I would get this emotional about it. But you see the story of this little satellite; all its accomplishments, where it has gone, what it's been thru, what it has done for us and humanity, and the fact it has been someone's way of life for the past 20 years, and now it's come to an end? You can't help but be moved by it. I don't get how for some people this is nothing, that they don't care bout things like these. I feel proud and glad that I am someone who gets it... Thank you Cassini and everyone involved on this project and adventure.
Me too... I kept telling myself, "don't cry, it's not the death of a beloved anime character", but it didn't work... on a more serious note, if this is so emotional for us, who only knew about Cassini from the news and science articles on the net over the years, I can only imagine what it must be like for the people who built it and sent it to space and worked with it for 20 years
Dear Fraser, as much as I always love your work: This was the best I think.
And yes, I cried. I cried when I watched it live, and now I do it again. It was an honor to be alive that time.
And you are blessed to be able to make videos like this. Thank you, my friend!
The moment when Cassini dove into the atmosphere... the feeeeels! My eyes started leaking at that point. Farewell, Cassini... thank you for all these years of taking us a bit further into knowledge and progress, and thank you, everyone at NASA who spent all these years making that possible. This last journey couldn't have been easy for you. Also, the brilliance of this video made me subscribe to you, Fraser Cain
Welcome aboard, I know exactly what you mean. :-)
This video brought up so many feels. Well done
Thanks for watching. It gave us feels to make it.
That was beautiful, good bye and thank you, Cassini.
Damian Reloaded comment above >>> ^_^
Thanks for watching!
Cassini thought it was just going to be another normal day. He didn't know he was about to die. :(
But mah feels tho
EASYTIGER10 :(
When you put it that way it's super sad.
RIP Cassini❤️🛰🛰🛰🛰🌌🌠
Until it felt the pressure of the atmosphere and tried its best to correct and hang in there. If you watch the live event on NASA you can see it puts up a fight trying to keep its transmitter aligned with earth and then the signal fades in and out, drops the the X band, but hangs in with S band for another 20 sec, dies and comes back a faint signal for a few sec and gone :( They declared another 45 sec and it was to disintergrate and vaporize.
I'm sure Cassini suspected something was up.
I'm not crying.
You're crying.
Brittany I just got something in my eye.
my eyeballs are sweating
I was just chopping onions.
Brittany
Yes I am...
Is it the skadoodle reference? Cause many people here wont get it
All the people involved in this great achievement must be feeling so many different emotions, especially when the craft met its end. I take my hat off to you all!! Great video as well.
I know this was a very emotional event for everyone involved with Cassini. Sad to see it go. :-(
when that synthwave kicks in though..
Yeah, I got a little scared around 5:30.
Perfect choice of music for this.
Anyone know the name of the song? The description has the artist, but not the song names.
The first two songs are from a soon-to-be released album about Cassini by Dave Wesely. The final song is Summer Kiss from Parsec's Press Fire to Begin album.
That makes me happy. BRAAAAP.
The most successful space mission of all time. So far at least. Thank you Cassini team.
It really was a boon to science.
I've never felt so sad when it's achieved so much
You're not the only one. The science will keep flowing for decades, though.
Thanks for all the work the team has done and for sharing!!!! RIP Cassini :( but what a legacy it leaves behind :)
Glad you enjoyed it... and Cassini. :-)
Thanks for making this video. The end of it made me emotional. I felt how lonely Cassini would be feeling, floating in a huge never ending emptiness... :'(
Isn't it so ironic that we're so advanced in science and we continue to make amazing discoveries and excel in astronomy while many people still believe in flat earth... Lol
Jacinda Lacroix the Earth is flat.... If you're completely ignorant and close minded
Curtis Chase We're not short of them... 😂😂🙈🙈
Curtis Chase if the earth is flat why does a can roll away checkmate """SCIENTISTS"""
Curtis Chase round* doesnt**
Jacinda, I can promise you that 90% of the 'flat earthers' are just bored trolls looking for some easy lulz. The real whackos sit in their insular chatrooms and forums talking to each other, not inviting challenges to their beliefs on TH-cam.
This was a very pleasant and intelligently produced and scored film. Thank you for the post Fraser and excellent score David
Thanks for watching, it was a bit of a departure for us.
Watched the direct live stream from JPL/NASA. Sad moment after 2 decades of discovery and achievement. (My dad's last mission before he went into retirement.)
Wow, thank your Dad from all of us!
Absolutely stunning presentation, Fraser. I felt the same well of emotions that rose in me while watching the live coverage of Cassini's swan song this morning. What a magnificent human achievement! Cassini delivered a gift of such a grand scale. Your presentation was fitting of that gift. Thank you so much for sharing.
Steve
It was an amazing mission and a wonderful finale.
You nailed this PERFECTLY! Tell your team they are bad-asses. The Synthwave, sync'd animation sequence crushed my day. GOOD JOB!
Thanks! Chad and Fraser really made a beautiful video. I had a blast providing the music. Thanks for the compliment! The first two pieces are from my upcoming album based on the Cassini mission. The synthwave track is "Summer Kiss" from my album "Press Fire To Begin". Here's a link if you want to check it out: itunes.apple.com/us/album/press-fire-to-begin/id1250459888
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it.
Love the editing and music. Watched this video multiple times and still I watch this when I feel sad. This refresh my mind and make me realise that we are just a dot in this universe, so enjoy your life.
I do the same. Watched i many times.
Excellent. Thank you for the tribute. An amazing collection of information and photo images using 1980's technology.
It's amazing to think how old all that hardware was, and yet the science it was able to do.
Wow...I actually shed tears after it's demise when entering Saturn's atmosphere 😢
R.I.P and thank you for all of the work you've done for many years, Cassini maybe just a tool for research but watching it's final moments was just....so emotional for me
Yeah, it's sad to know that we don't have any spacecraft able to take pictures of Saturn any more.
Good by old friend. I worked on Voyager 2's first stage exhaust nozzles so this is very special.
Tomoko's Enterprize+ YOU DID THAT?
Just one person in a very big happening. We didn't even know what they were until after being shipped back to them from Stratford Ontario.
i don't even know what to say.
I was a 20 yr old machinist working in the pipeline and shipping sector. We had enormous boring mills with 25 ft tables that could handle the big pieces. It really wasn't anything special at the time.
Yet, little did you know what it would become.
I’m extremely excited to announce the release of my new album, “Cassini“! Thanks to everyone in the comments here for their kind words and compliments on my music! Here is a link to the album:
davidjosephwesley.bandcamp.com/album/cassini
RIP Cassini :'(
R.I.P.
We'll miss you. :-(
condolences.
Sad to say id got emotional when i see this.. thank u cassini for the good job youve done.. ur unbelievable such a very nice.. without you, you cannot share the info and the beauty of planet saturn.. thank u very much cassini.
Thanks Cassini!
What a brave soul Cassini was. We're gonna miss you :'(
Yup, but scientists will still be looking at the data for decades.
Cassini sounds like a war hero in this video, Never thought we'd get emotional over a space probe.
That spacecraft did a good job. :-)
@@frasercain Indeed.
Super cool. The digital recreation of the passing through the rings and the reentry is outstanding! A movie should be made about exploring the gas giants. It'd be spectacular! ^_^
You just wait. We're going to see so many of them you'll be able to recite the dates.
Not a reentry. An exit.
Fizzy Note comment below, profile picture >>> ^_^
I'm sure a bunch will be released eventually now that the Cassini mission has wrapped up.
If a technology to get us in and out of Jupiter clouds could be developed, I wonder if liquid filled space suits could help astronauts withstand the force of gravity there. Maybe having the entire spaceship filled with it would serve both for buoyancy and radiation shielding. ^_^ EDIT: Saturn's almost that of Earth's tho...
from satellite to star dust😢✨
Thanks I loved the soundtrack
Wonderfully fascinating recap of the Cassini probe and its journey to the Saturn system. I wonder if any of the many thousands of young students excelling in STEM and other academic disciplines will get to dream big for humanity and participate in such grand technological achievements. Science and technology promise humanity a place among the stars but only so long as military interests ride shotgun all the way. All we need do as a species is survive the temperament of the 21st century and we may get a chance to make Cassini, James Webb and our other great voyages of discovery actually mean something.
Here's hoping the upcoming missions are as ambitious and as successful as Cassini.
Damn, this is heavy..I feel a bit closer to Cassini being nearly the same age as me. (21) I was still drooling on myself when this magnificent craft left our sphere of influence forever. Goodnight, Cassini. You've served us very well and you certainly did not go gently into that good night.
Cassini almost lasted long enough to join you for a drink in a bar... but not quite.
Oh, that's alright. Cassinis' data is/was intoxicating enough. That'll have to suffice. I'm not much of a drinker, anyway.
A beautiful homage to such a grandiose project, now ended. I was so young when the orbiter launched, I never properly payed attention to it or it's mission, taking for granted the information yielded, until it's last moments, for shame. So glad I got to witness the final moments of a 35 year long project around such a beautiful mission. 20 years since launch, 15 years in the making, and to end it the way they were able to - gorgeous, breathtaking, wonderful.
That was a great tribute, though. :-)
Farewell Cassini and thanks Cassini team.
The fist time I see the ad before a video is the same subject as the video it self. :) Thanks for your vids. Very nice to watch all of them.
Oh that's cool, nice related advert. :-)
you could say that cassinis life has taken a... 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻
*ba dum tss!*
Hah, I see what you did there.
Totally incredible and Beautiful..these images are just super amazing to see and to me.. Way to go..Thank you so so much for your videos too..
Thanks for watching!
Fraser Cain Your welcome still amazing job.
this is what I call a successful mission
If this wasn't successful, I don't know what the hell successful is.
Thanks so much for this guys! What legends you all are. Love your work, podcasts, etc. This is truly amazing.
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-)
And there are those would argue that NASA is just a socialist special interest project that needs to be cut because socialism is bad Um Kay. IMHO I have always felt my tax dollars have/are rarely used better and offer no greater return than the achievements our space agency have accomplished thru the decades. Certainly there have been tragedies and fiscal calamities but lets face it space is hard and until the private sector can take over NASA laid all the groundwork and did all the heavy lifting before Space-X and the other commercial private sector entities had the chance to come to fruition and become the next standard bearer.
Well Done NASA/ESA and thank you Casini team for a truly stunning achievement.
Michael Moeller Almost no one takes the position you are arguing against.
Guess most people would not bother to realize these people exist out there www.connorboyack.com/blog/nasa-legalized-theft-and-a-waste-of-money
Michael Moeller oh, some crackpot blogger. Obviously some of them exist, but come on man, just enjoy the video and stop politicizing everything.
It wasn't my intention at all to politicize anything I was just stating how proud I am of NASA and the mission results and feel like it was money well spent and will continue to bear fruit for many more years.
I wish he was just some lone crackpot blogger with a myopic view of the world, sadly he isn't alone and millions of others who share similar views on the importance of NASA and science in general are demanding their representatives cut the budgets for these agencies and future scientific programs.
If it's too political to express and opinion that I feel we get good value for our money than I guess that makes me a political hack.
I don't think you see a lot of them around here. Don't worry, this is a safe space. :-)
Who's watching in 2k18 and in tears with this spectacular ending 😢 ?
Best mission ever.
One of the best produced and edited Videos I have seen in a while...WOW
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cassini will never be forgotten from history or in future. it was the best! although voyager sister spacecrafts flown in the 70's have done great explorations in space history, no other spacecraft have done such a close and immense discovery of a hostile planet like Saturn and given its life for sciences good. Cassini will be remembered forever! I salute the work. Question is, why build such a beautiful spacecraft like cassini and then in the final moments give it to destruction without no reason? only humans who built it can answer that!
They had a good reason, it was out of fuel and was going to crash anyway. At least they could choose where it would happen.
That was insightful AF! Thank you broseph!
Thanks for watching!
Touching. Excellent. Emotional to me, and probably most of us, who are devoted to science and reality.
That's great, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This was a great video really good choice of music thank you for this
Thanks, you should check out David's music: www.djwfilmmusic.com/
Probably one of the most exciting, successful space mission of mankind.
We are small, yet we have, according to our potential, achieved so much.
Thanks Cassini. #RIPCassini
Great video.
Yup, it truly was one of our greatest accomplishments.
Why am i crying, it's a freaking probe 😭
I don't know why, but when it got to cassini's final descent, it made me sad. But I'm extremely grateful for the amount of knowledge this special spacecraft gave us. I really doubt if any one from the team that worked on cassini will read this, but thank you.
I know they appreciate your kind thoughts.
The artist impressions at the end make it look like Saturn has a solid surface.
Yeah, it's just cloud tops.
I know--but it looks so cool. I can just imagine Saturn being a desert world, even that far from the sun. And those big silver rings in the sky... :D
Wow... that video and arrangement was simply amazing and captivating! bravo!
Thanks for watching. :-)
Beautiful
Absolutely.
Thanks so much for posting this. Excellent.
Thanks a lot, it was fun to make.
Was that the actual space music Cassini was blasting throughout the mission?
Peter Houle no it's antennas picked it up from the ufo's radio that was watching it
It liked to carry space music on its mission.
Over a hunk of metal that I followed on and off only when I heard something on the news about, did I ever pay any attention to it. I never thought I would get this emotional about it. But you see the story of this little satellite; all its accomplishments, where it has gone, what it's been thru, what it has done for us and humanity, and the fact it has been someone's way of life for the past 20 years, and now it's come to an end? You can't help but be moved by it. I don't get how for some people this is nothing, that they don't care bout things like these. I feel proud and glad that I am someone who gets it... Thank you Cassini and everyone involved on this project and adventure.
Yup, it's hard not to watch this hunk of metal burn up and not get all the feels. :-)
great video Fraser, love the music too. Its incredible to think how long Cassini has provided science and will continue to provide it! Its a shame flagship missions seem to be a thing of the past. I hope this will perhaps inspire a next big mission to the Ice giants perhaps ?
Thanks, you should check out David's music too: www.djwfilmmusic.com/
Thank you for this most excellent tribute.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
😭😭😭😭 Rest in Space Cassini
1997-2017 😭😭😭😭
You'll be missed. :-(
Phenomenal! Planetary science is the way to go; life may be much more common than we think, even in our own solar system. We just have to be aware that it may look very, very different. Very exciting; congrats & a huge "thank you" to the entire Cassini team - all of you did a marvellous job !
They really did, it's sad to see the mission go. :-(
Farewell Cassini ❤️
Yep, time to say goodbye.
Wow! This video was made at the same date Cassini burned up!
RIP Cassini😭😭
I pressed really, really hard when "thumbing up" this video. Absolutely fantastic. BRAVO!
Thanks for the thumbs up!
Great work you guys!
Thanks a lot, we had a great time making it.
Outstanding space music. Thanks!
I would love to burn up in Saturns atmosphere after a 20 year journey.
Fantastic video - Thank you
Thanks, i'm glad you enjoyed it.
Wow... The NASA animators outdid themselves on this piece. Parts were more like works of art. Excellent depiction of the sense of scale -- tiny robot flying past a Gas Giant. 11/10!
Yeah, we had a lot of great visualization and images to work with.
Dude, this video was one of your best. Very, very cool. Thanks for all you do!
And I didn't even have to say a word. :-)
Fraser Cain Haha, I hoped you wouldn't take it that way! :)
TheSixthSola I really like the music reminds me a lot of Miami Vice with Crockett brooding alone on a beach smoking a cigarette after killing a drug lord...hauntingly beautiful...🐢
TheSixthSola sorry I thought I was responding to somebody else my bad
Whats your favorite picture/s from the cassini mission?
kraken1122
i thought your profile picture was a hair on my screen.. lol
kraken1122 The Saturn Eclipse/ Water Jets from Eucaladus
The picture of Earth is a classic, of course, but I love the close up images of Iapetus best.
Wow! Thank´s for the upload. Just amazing!
Thanks for watching. :-)
imagine seeing all this with your own eyes, i need to hitchhike with the next ufo i see..
LiveToby ikr lol
Yeah, Saturn would be a place I'd love to see with my own eyes. As long as I could come home safely again.
Tears in my eyes ... Didn't know it did so much of precious work ...its life Connected directly to human daily life through research papers and exploration... Music was so engrossing that my mind was full of bliss watching the hard work put by the human civilization... Love you Cassini and all the scientists who worked on it
Screw real suffering of living beings, we're gonna cry our eyes out over THIS
This is human invention.
Hope , and dreams.
This is matter, formed in way that represents our desire, to look over next hill.
What you don't understand is that this is a small step on the road to helping raise everyone on Earth to a better life. It's not going to happen in my lifetime or even maybe in my children's lifetimes, should I ever have them. But, if we keep exploring, keep learning and keep bettering ourselves, then everyone benefits.
Dysputant said it more poetically than I could. And, if history has proven anything to me, it's that the best way to unite people is to show them that there's more to achieve, more to see and more to do. Given purpose, we are capable of amazing things. Left to flounder, we turn on each other. The United States has never been more united than during the Space Race. Out there is our future and the way we survive not just as a species, but as humanity.
Through discoveries like this, we find loopholes in nature that we exploit to invent technologies to improve life and reduce suffering for living beings. You mocking this noble effort makes you the villain.
We can do both. Feel sad about our robotic explorers and for the suffering of human beings.
Sippin on some smirnoff with cranberry juice adds to this experience! Thanks Fraser and Mr. Music Composer! I love you!
WE LOVE YOU CASSINI :]
Aww, Cassini knows.
Fraser, that was a pretty great video! Thanks, it was amazing!
Thanks for watching.
I like the music on this video especially the music where cassini burns into saturns clouds
That's all David Joseph Wesley. Check out his music: www.djwfilmmusic.com/
Beautiful, just absolute Beauty. The Cassini probe will be missed.
Definitely, but fortunately we've got lots of other spacecraft out there sending back the science too.
Nice presentation. I like none verbal content myself ;)
...and suddenly I feel like watching Tron after this music.
It was a lot of fun. David had composed this cool music so we figured we'd do a collaboration.
So well done, great work and good information. Hello from UK, loved it! Serena x
Thanks for watching!
Don't tell anybody, but I got a little misty eyed
Your secret's safe.
Great presentation like always..Cassini be missed RIP Cassini !!!
Love the videos keep it up thanks
Thanks a lot, we're glad you enjoyed it.
very very good music!!
Thank you! I'm honored to have my music accompanying all of these beautiful images brought to us by Cassini.
Yup, David did a great job. I can't wait for the full Cassini album to come out.
My eyes teared up at the end... Very emotional, 20 years.
Yup, it's sad to see it go, but we got a lot of amazing science out of it.
Rest well little probe.
In bed made of diamonds.
Aww. ;-)
Awesome Video, awesome Music! Thank you so much!
RIP Cassini.
Thanks a lot for watching. :-)
It was an amazing mission from start to finish. Just imagine if its high gain antenna had been working for the entire mission. Cassini still did awesome without it. One of NASA's finest exploration missions to date that's for sure. We need more probes in orbit around more planets, like all the planets...
I thought it was Galileo that had the problem with the high gain antenna.
Fraser Cain I thought it was cassini but maybe it was Galileo. I could be wrong. my bad.
Jamie Godman cgi fake come on how are we gonna go to Saturn when we can't go to the moon sry to much radiation but you keep believe I got maybe one day
+Jordanzillia Gillliam first of all Cassini was an unmanned mission you idiot. There were no humans on board. And we can go to the Moon with people if the hardware was built for it. We went to the moon back when the Saturn V rocket and Apollo spacecraft were being made. NASA no longer flies either of them. So that is the only reason we can't go to the Moon right now. We have the knowledge and technology to do so. As far as your CGI claim, I say prove it. Prove that the Cassini mission was just fake CGI. That's right you can't because there is no proof of any fakery, except for your so called intelligence, that's the only thing being faked.
May Cassini always be remembered for all the knowledge brought to human kind about the amazing Saturnian System.
One of the best space missions humans have ever pulled off.
Yeah, I think it's safe to say that Cassini is one of the most successful missions ever done. Doing science right up until the end.
Q) If Voyager 1 reaches an alien planet wouldn't it burn up in the atmosphere, making the gold disc a complete waste? Alternatively, if the planet does not have a dense atmosphere then wouldn't it hit the ground at comet speed destroying the disc once again. Also isn't it possible that alien species could consider this as an act of war?
A) The machine would burn up immediately rendering the disk kind of useless(unless some miracle happen). It may or may not be completely broken. No, like us , we would probably think of it as a hoax or some random guy lying to poeple on the net.
but.. based on some maps on the net, if the trajectory of the voyager stays the same, it could drift into another system.( but non habitable
)
Thanks for clearing that out. (but still.. a star system XD )
I was just thinking of the momentum of the craft.
735kg at 17,000m/s ... gives over 100 giga-joules
Omesh Singh thats relative velocity from launch... the planet it would crash on would have some relative velocity to voyager as well. So if it's moving in the same relatove direction, the impact is greatly reduced. But what if it's relative motion is against the probe, well... hehe
beautiful and touching. Farewell to a friend.
It feels strange to know we won't have it there taking pictures any more. :-(
So glad we managed to see it enter the atmosphere....
It's an amazing final accomplishment to a great mission.
I apologise for catching you out here Fraiser, my comment was a slight whip at the cgi image. Nonetheless I thank you for responding amd mean it in jest sir. Keep up the fabulous work.....
*This was AWESOME!!*
I think this is the best way to Honour a fallen
Thanks a lot for watching!
Saturn inhabitants are now cleaning up the mess and telling the public it was a weather balloon.
And they're downloading the images in their Saturnian military bases right now.
Naaah, they said it was swamp gas!
RIP Casssini what an amazing voyage! You showed us Saturn from a closer point of view. Awesome stuff! Thanks NASA!
Yeah, it was amazing to think we had a spacecraft there.