NASA Cassini's Final Images of Saturn Stunned Me
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His heart flying out as see a beautiful lady 😂
Well, matter technically can’t be destroyed. Even the “void” of a black hole has the remnants of whatever gets pulled in.
I have been wondering how cassini is video captured while plunging finally into Saturn. Who captured it.
I'm dying
help🇦🇺🇺🇲🇨🇳📡🗼🇵🇭🛰️🚾🐫🐚
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.
This opens up the phylosophical question of whether we ourselves even know if things are intentional or not. If the universe is deterministic, then every decision has already been made, by the laws of physics and not us, just as one example.
But to be practical, it of course is beneficial to believe we know things and to believe that we make decisions and to believe that we can differentiate between intentional and not intentional. But truly 100% knowing anything, is impossible.
Do you also feel bad for the computers inside smart bombs and tomahawk missiles? The computer wasn't trying to "figure" anything out nor was it trying to "save" itself. The computer inside was a collection of transistors that turn on and off in a predetermined way from a list of on off patterns called software. It wasn't even doing that. When a group of transistors that are arranged in a certain way get a certain electrical on or off pattern what comes out on the other side is a logical operation. They don't even know they are doing it. In fact they aren't "doing" anything. So the transistors then get more electrical inputs (patterns of +5 volts which represents a "1" or 0 Volts which represents "0") and then perform some other calculation based on the software. The computer does not even "see" 1s and 0s, only voltage levels across dumb and blind transisters. Computers are dumb and blind. Even though they do complex things like guide space craft, or auto land jetliners, or be a word processor, they do not know what it is they are doing. They are just blindly following the most basic instructions, without any idea what it all adds up to or what it means. all they "know" is put the value " 01101001" into memory location "1100010001" or read memory location "100010001011" into register A and subtract 10001100 from the value and store it into memory location "100100101". They have no idea that this is part of an algorithm that is controlling jet passenger plane, a spacecraft, or that they are blowing themselves up in a missile. I am a computer engineer and used to design the internals of processors. So dont feel bad lol.
The last message that it tried to send after losing control was surely
"Was I a good probe?" 😢
@@GuRuGeorge03 Fate is only possible in a classical universe, Quantum Mechanics make the future probabilistic rather than deterministic.
Computer troubleshooting the problems while plummets into inescapable destruction, even though its a problem that cannot be solved, shows that electronics benefit from having only given task "in mind", to do their duties best they can until their last circuit bus fries.
In this case, a space probe with emotions will be a failed experiment.
Unless its a probe that's deeply fascinated with space.
Shout out to the camera man who recording the final moment of cassini during it descend
The balls/ovaries of the that person...
He's in creative mode
XD
hahe
His balls are denser then than the gas giants
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
Maybe if they have good ships they can fly IN Saturn but it would be boring I guess because it is made of gas
You really believe this cartoon?
@@scottd7222 What cartoon?
@@sokol2629 just one of those guys that don't believe in science or human engineering because he thinks it's impossible to achieve such feats
@@BoBo-pl3ww he doesn’t want to believe that while he’s posting images of himself in his mothers truck on FB, people can create stuff like this and actually do something with their lives lol
Cassini’s last thoughts were the realization that something was very wrong! Does anyone else find that a bit heartbreaking?
Yes. 😢
reminds me of the opporunity rover basically saying "my batteries are low and it's getting dark" for some reason it's always sad when a machine gives a message like that
Number 5, no disassemble!
It's just a bunch of computers
@insabon1337 In the near future, ppl will start forgetting that AI is a tool and start treating them like humans
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.
You make the perfect AI sub
This was a nice tribute to Cassini.. but you should watch episode 8 of season 2 of Neil degrass Tyson's, Cosmos - Possible Worlds..
It's all about Cassini, and has an incredible montage set to the most perfect string instrument soundtrack.. hauntingly beautiful, sad, and yet somehow exactly right for the emotion of the show..
I also got an Exact same feeling
Don't think too much about it. It's programmed by Humans
it's strange, eerie, and perhaps a bit expected how similar our machines are to us: do everything you can to survive.
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 :)
Perfect comment
it’s because humans are attracted to things like stuffed animals, robots, houses, and care for them. it’s just how our brains work
@@lipeater4443 Its love.
The sadness of cassini is that they couldn't be assed to take a picture of the clouds up close. Wtf were they thinking. It is one of the most burning questions people have about space and it captures the imagination. I guess the imaginative people weren't on staff that day.
Wow, I actually teared up at that thought.
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)
The real version of wall e
Can't rule out that a little bit of quantum human NRG is, during construction & operation, transmitted into the machine. Re the behavior of ships, especially. 💜
Oh I agree!
@@jamesbugbee6812 English pls
Not learnings, knowledge, lol
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.
How does Cassini's last moments have more character development and emotional moments than the majority of most movies nowadays.
Cassini’s final messages to earth…
Still a better love story than Twilight.
Because it was real
@@CasperTheGhost64 agreed
Thats my fault for bad use of words. There are some really good movies being produced nowadays with really impactful narratives and storytelling.
However to me, a majority of mainstream films are simply bland movies that are trying to milk old franchises or are trying to capitalize on certain trends.
@@stephenlackey5852 well, it’s not a high bar
Because it’s real, not acting
That description of Cassini plunging into Saturn was kind of emotional in a way. RIP Cassini, you brave thing. Well done.
F
Check out the "Planets" documentary with Brian Cox, it provides similar descriptions of various missions we've sent into space.
lol its just an instrument, wires and bolts.
@@steveothehulk but still it's emotional to say goodbye to such a great piece of apparatus that provided us with so much data
Kentendo 64 well each to their own I guess I just see a machine/computer I have no emotional connection to it at all,
I mean Your not going to put your arm around it and kiss it are you lol.
I nearly cried watching this. I can’t imagine the feeling of being on the team that made this possible.
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. 🏆
well i mean, astronauts still are XD
theyre literally the peak of human physicality to survive in the most hostile environment known to man
Cassini: “Will I dream?” Mission control: “yeah, yeah, of course...now if you can just get those final pictures...”
Haha, i don't know why this made me remember that Spielberg A.I. movie
@@JesusLopez-xz3qw It's from the film "2010: The Year We Make Contact". It is what the computer SAL 9000 ask before being powered down.
@@JoseyWales44s don't get past 2001, space oddyssey
@@JesusLopez-xz3qw "2010" was much more a conventional science fiction film compared to "2001". A good film, based upon Clarke's sequel novel, but not of the artistic magnitude of Kubrick's "2001".
@@JoseyWales44s 2001 was a pointless acid trip, change my mind
Death himself "Time to go Cassini."
Cassini "Was i a good space satellite?"
Death "No....
You were one of the best"
@ThisIsMyRealName you can only be considered dead if you've been alive at one point of time.
😭😭😭😭 this comment made me tear up no cap
Mars curiosity rover “ am I a joke to you “
@@ashishhembrom3905 so how will anyone be considered alive then? Were we dead b4? 🤔😉
@@omarbarrios3420 you can only be considered alive if you're able to perform tasks and make sentient decisions. You don't need to be smart to know which is alive.
RIP Cassini! So sweet how folks in the comments are emotionally connecting to this brave little computer. Wish we could use this enormous potential for empathy we have and too mourn and celebrate all beings here with us on Earth, this most beautiful of planets we call home.
Martyrdom has always had a powerful effect on people. The ultimate self sacrifice.
Humans respect those who give, and lose respect for those who express entitlement to being given to.
Maybe because Cassini doesn't have emotions, it's being interpreted as it putting it's own emotions aside, to keep giving till the end, even giving it's "life" as it just keeps giving.
Most people just want, just ask, just complain, just expect...very few people just give with complete stoism.
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.
“That’ll do, Cassini, that’ll do...”🥺✨💫🌟
It could have been worse... thrusting...into Uranus 🥴
@@natty8857 shitty experience
@@emilyp6904 lol very good
This made me cry.
@@jestoninadayag844 the thrusting into Uranus?
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.
Hehe, a "toast"
You probably still leave teeth under your pillow
Brave soldier boy, come marching home...
@@mrollins4684 You probably still leave snarky remarks on harmless TH-cam comments
My dyslexia made me read that first bit as "...the brave little toaster Cassini"... which also quite blatantly... shows my age.
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.
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.
"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?
Amazing engineering does the heart strings good.
Keeping itself alive long enough to get the message across. Like the sad ending to a movie.
yeah
Because you have nothing else going on meaningful in your life 😆
@@jeffwisener1378 does that blockbuster movie-like opinion of yours come with a projector?
Bruh i started to tear up when Cassini's computers were trying to figure out whats wrong, then inevitably burning up
Like Roy Batty's death soliloquy in Blade Runner. Time to die...
Poor computers 😢
Gone to silicon heaven RIP
He got me crying when he mentioned the thrusters' enormous efforts to maintain its antenna facing earth, against the gravity and atmosphere of a planet almost 100 times more massive than earth. An effort that was doomed to lose the battle.
Me too!
I think that the fact that Cassini was basically panicking in their final moments makes this more heartbreaking than it should be...
Cassini: *what is happening? I've done everything they've told me to do*
And that's exactly the reason why it ended that way
😓
It knew its job. It did it to the very end.
STOP 😢
@@pholiux1418 Haha, true.
Cassini: “Why did they program me to feel pain?”
Saturn: I dont know
Bill Nelson (Deputy Administrative Director of NASA): “I forgor 💀”
nasa, probably: you tread the path we may never know, little probe. you go in our stead, so you must feel as we might feel.
Cassini fragments: put me back in nasa, we are stuck.
“Does this unit have a soul?”
watching these videos, make me feel that nothing we are doing on earth has meaning. We are just an atom in the cosmos. It's hauntingly beautiful.
One human in the universe, the nothingness of it...
everything we do matters, because we are part of the universe just like everything else.
And besides all of that Earth is the only planet which supports life lol so it's the only planet that actually matters. So everything we are doing matters.
A gigantic WELL DONE to the people who gave their professional lives to this endeavor. You have made my life richer by your dreams and sacrifices. Thank you all!
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.
Me too
100% ! We still know so little but we have so many pioneer scientists that are willing to sacrifice their life's work to get this kind of data for future generations (let's remember that Cassini was launched in 1997, 24 years ago).
@@LucasDaRonco I think it’s so amazing. That’s why I want to become a science journalist, so that I can document all the amazing things they’re doing
The only problem is we don't appreciate each other.
@@ninetailedfox579121 well spoken Josh
As Cassini increasingly struggled to right itself, both the probe and it’s creators came to accept what they had always known but never before reconciled - that its journey was a one way trip. Before its family and friends would ever hear the message, it had torn across an alien sky and even as it was ripped apart at the seams, fought with all its might - not to escape its fate - but to call home, one last time and with its final breath, say “goodbye.”
Jeebus
Ah cmon you're making me cry
I know my mental state ain’t doing so well when I cry over a space satellite crashing into saturn ✋😃
😭
goosebumps
I feel so sad now……it’s like I have lost my best friend. Cassini fought to survive until the bitter end and his mission was invaluable in space exploration. Thank you for everything you did Cassini. Rest In Space….I mean peace little space probe 🖤
Wonderful, thank you 😊 I am a child of the Space Race, followed Gemini missions, and Apollo, and all the exploration and construction missions (I have viewed the ISS through binoculars as it passed over my area). Cassini is the mission I dreamed of seeing as a boy, but never thought I would.
Amazing images, fascinating commentary 👌
“Saturn’s water ring is the bluest naturally occurring object in the solar system.”
Earth: 🥲
Earth " hold my ocean"
Haha, so tru
Neptune: Excuse me bro?
Earth: Am just a "pale blue dot".. :)
all i see is just [x]
The fact that Cassini was trying to fix up the problem when it was burning up and exploded suddenly is kinda sad.
I bet a few tears were shed at mission control. These folks put everything into these missions. Well done folks
Mr. Death: "Time to go Cassini"
Cassini: "Was I a good satellite ?"
Mr. Death: "No"
Mr. Death: "You were the best"
That final, desperate attempt of Cassini to keep connection with Earth made me emotional :')
Same.
Fictional stories usually are emotional.
Same here
@@jjwest1272 Do we have a sceptical one in our midst?
How can you not be ..not judgment over yonder
2:56 "and is potentially the bluest naturally occurring object in the solar system"
*sad earth noises
* Sad Neptune noises *
@@peoplelegend8476 *Sad Uranus noises
@@mastershooter64 nah, Neptune is more blue than Uranus
@@twixen835 haha funny name for a planet haha so funny
wow.
Earth is not that blue and green ball they show everywhere. Its actually a blueish grey ball covered in huge white clouds, vegetation doesn't even look that green in space under the atmosphere and the clouds but more of a unsaturated greenish-grey
It was the most amazing thing i ever saw. My son was totally blind on R side legally so on L side. We were able to watch this together & up close to tv he saw much of it. it was one of the last things of that magnitude we watched together. We were spellbound. It was indeed sad to watch it's demise. Well done.
What makes these videos special is not only the content but, The excellent commentary, kudos to you. I love your channel.
Cassini lives on in her data, shes immortal now 😇
She’s part of Saturn now.
until the usb stick with the data is brocken 😜
By the end of the video, I was so connected with Cassini that it felt as if it was a human being and when it finally died, my heart broke a little. You have done your job, Cassini. Now you can rest in peace.
🙄🙄
Mee too 😔
Ahh, so cute……
It broke my heart and made me cried. I wished Cassini continued it's mission to this day.
@@dmana3172 you really cried over this…
Cassini is more of a person than a few 'persons' I've known over the years.
Always quality content presented. Thank you.
2:56 it’s potentially the bluest naturally occurring thing in the solar system
Neptune: 🔵
That statement was epic.
Neptune can get lost, I will not forgive what he did to Triton
@@jellyfish0311 what did he do?
@@oofgottarunn Triton was a dwarf planet, but Neptune captured it with its gravity
@@jellyfish0311 based
Damn, this is the saddest story about a non-living thing I've ever heard. 😭
Have you not seen the movie the brave little toaster?!!
@@blowc1612 lol
Toy Story was pretty rough too though
Opportunity’s story also very sad
Ummm, guys, who is going to tell him about Opportunity
I watch a lot of reviews. This is one of my favorites, and eloquently narrated. Thanks. Cassini was awesome.
Why does this always make me cry?? Maybe it’s because it tried to do what it could to keep doing it’s job, up to the very last moment. Just a lonely machine in space, witnessing unfathomable beauty, that no amount of the precious pixels or data could ever convey entirely.
I love how he's talking like Cassini is alive, and not controlled by humans
For most of its descent into Saturn, it WASN'T controlled by humans. It was completely autonomous. So in a way, it was alive.
We like to anthropomorphize inanimate objects. Just take a look at how people talk about the Mars rovers, or how we talk about ships.
The machine spirit is willing
One day humans and machines will become one
yes it's kind of endearing!
Glad I'm not the only one who cried when Cassini burned up in the atmosphere and the screen said the date and 'END OF MISSION'.
I got mad at mission control for allowing this to happen
Why cry? It's pointless. Think of all the data revovered.
@@ancientdig1068 I didn't choose to cry - it was just a very emotional scene! It wasn't that I didn't agree with the decision to end the mission - it was just sad. And it seems by a lot of the comments in this thread that a lot of people were also affected, which made me feel less stupid for feeling sad that a machine 'died'.
@@carynwakelin2494 is it because it tried to save itself without knowing its real final mission?
@@ancientdig1068 No, it's just the way we put our human values on other things, like animals and machines - it was sad because it had done its job well and now was the time to die. I know it was a machine and it didnt know it was dying, but still emotional all the same.
Cassini we love you still for the images you sent us from where no one has dared to go.
That was a brilliant segway into the ad. Well done and thank you for this amazing video
*"change da world, my final message, goodbye"*
rip harambe doge
I lol'd
You just made me commit exhale through nose harder than usual
7:32
Comments you can hear
Made me emotional when I learnt about Cassini's last moments. But, what a piece of technology Cassini was - unparalleled! I am always in awe thinking of NASA's capabilities.
ik, since the computers on those satellites are so efficient and smart, it feels like they are actual living beings and it feels like they have been deserted millions of miles away and theyre trying to survive
@@arishemthejudge6780 they're not remotely like living beings, they computers for God's sake. If you bleeding hearts get so emotional over these pieces of hardware, why don't you go do some charity work or save a puppy from a shelter.
Unbelievable, you people, sympathizing with some fucking machines in space when people and animals are starving all around you lmao.
So stupid.
@@brosephdudebro2537 no point saving anything cause if we don't get out into space then we cannot support ourselves on this planet
@@matthewwheeldon668 What a ridiculous statement.
How ? We need more resources to support the increasing amount of greedy people on this planet if we don't get out there soon there won't be anything left
The Cassini mission is a true milestone in human evolution. Amazing engineering and work ethic.
I had read about the Cassani saturn probe mission when I was teenager and was very excited about it. But now I feel very sad to know that it has reached its final destination. The journey made by the cassani saturn probe mission and the distance it covered is unprecedented in human history. Human history will forever be indebted to the Cassani mission that gave us comprehensive information about Saturn until its last moment.
Cassini: "uh... Mi-Mission Control...? I-I don't feel s-so g-good..." (disintegrates during Saturn reentry)
rip
o7
I can hear the disconnect-y voice breaking up like a battery dying in a crazy way lol
🥺
reminds me of a certain endgame scene...
I'd be bawling my eyes out on the day Cassini disintegrated if I was one of the scientists or engineers working on this project.
I was / did :(
No. You just have a vivivivivivivivivivid imagination. :"D
Well, it did all that was asked, and more. It was a fine end after a great mission:)
I took my ship in Elite Dangerous to Saturn and parked myself above it when this was happening, in silent vigil for Cassini. I had been to JPL when it was the new thing and hadn't launched yet, so I wanted to be as close as I could for the end as well.
I would to as it would be the end of my pay cheques (PhD welfare) from the government-I might have to go out and find a real job.
What an achievement! Spectacular! A deep respect and most grateful thank you to NASA and particularly the team involved in Cassini. Mike Johannesburg South Africa
This made me sad for Cassini. She went into a safe mode🥺Thank u for ur service,Cassini.
Having been one of the people who had a hand in the manufacture of some of her parts I feel a great pride having touched the stars with my very own hands and a great sadness watching that work crash even for such a cause but I have traveled farther than most in my dream of space and it feels more of a trip to Valhalla than a swan dive
It certainly wasn’t in vain. Cassini brought us so much awe to our eyes and new knowledge about saturn
Thank you for your contribution
Respect
You are a superhero! I can't thank you enough for your contribution to humanity and science. Seriously, thank you SO so much.
AND HOWS YOUR JOB AT RADIO SHACK DOING
Its crazy, when you think about, that we are here on earth and somewhere there on a planet stuff is happening and we dont know what. I just love space
Millions and millions of planets,moons,suns,stars. Hundreds of galaxies containing them, a different or similar form of life definetely does exist out there
@@Liam-ly7up i just wish we could find it already :(
@@merc-svt9701 oh we have
@@Liam-ly7up I’m surprised the simulation doesn’t lag with how much is going on in the universe.
also we dont know whats going on on this planet OMG!!
It always made me feel sad to hear or see about space stuff getting destroyed for a particular cause. Beautiful results of cosmic bodies like planets, but at a high sacrifice at the machine’s destruction.
Having done her mission and completed it with resounding success, Cassini gave us unparalleled views of the Saturn system. She did her duty and will go down in the annals of space flight history as a hero.
Exactly 22 dangerous orbits before finally reaching cassini's end..... I actually cried watching an animation of it struggling to face it's sat dish one more time to earth to say it's goodbyes 😥 I felt that
Yeah, I was tremendously emotional in a bittersweet way when I watched in real time as this valiant little machine took the plunge into Saturn's atmosphere. Watching the image Start to suffer, than silence; then one last burst of information and it was gone. If a robot can be heroic, Cassini was superheroic.
Yeah... I did the same with Oppy!
Rest in particles, bro. You did an amazing job.
Unable to stay, unwilling to leave.
Cassini.
The feelings I can feel when watching those photo is indescribable! I don't even know if I really understand myself what's going on in my brain when I watch those pictures, it's almost strange...
I helped to build the RTG’s (Radioisotopic Thermoelectric Generator) used for the Cassini mission at the Mound Lab in Miamisburg Ohio and feel very proud to have been chosen to do so. Thanks for the video and the good memories.
Wow. How close could it get to the surface before the planetary EM affected the current of the generator ?
It's very tempting to assign emotional significance to a machine straining against its physical limitations to continue operating as designed. The music doesn't help with that. I'm an engineer and I still feel sad thinking about the end of Cassini. It was a machine doing what it was designed to do, and by all rights we should be glad to see it performed admirably until the last second, but we're still cavemen on the inside, and we're hardwired to interpret the final end of anything as being the same as death. It's hard to accept there _had_ to be an end. Cassini's mission is the sort of thing that inspires hero mythology. If it makes you feel better, we have a complete copy of Cassini's design, software, and data, and we could reconstruct it at any time, like a Cylon.
that was a really well constructed reply! i'm in awe
It seems to me that you're trying to make an objective statement about machines from the perspective of an "engineer", but when you say that the destruction of a machine is distinct from death you are making a philosophical argument; one I don't think you are a qualified authority on anymore so than Decarte or Plato.
@@winkoman3A distinction made less significant in the last six decades by the computational theory of mind; whether computing with silicon or neurons, when that activity irrecoverably stops, the system goes out of existence.
we're such an amazing species inventing ways to study the solar system billions of miles away, yet just can't seem to get along with each other.
Very well said
Just a natural thing really, not much we could ever do about it
One third of us are really smart.
One third is roughly average smart or even dumb.
One third of us are absolutely, Stupid.
That's where I fit in.
We should first explore the place we live in, but it seems that solar system is a priority while we haven't seen real photo of a whole planet Earth.
@@PsyMOONze Are you blind? Have ever seen a real closeup photo of Pluto?
It look's pretty round to Me!
I remember having school that day and staying home. Just to watch a honorable satellite, plunge into a world unlike ours. Here's to you my friend. You can rest now.
The pictures from the 8th of September, 2017, almost look like an old movie, filled with granularity, until you realize all those little "grains" are stars! The data collected from the Cassini-Huygens mission really put into perspective how inconceivably large Saturn and its 82 moons! I'm super excited about NASA's Dragonfly mission!
-cassini's PC: "what is going on guys???" **dies** :'(
Thanks for making me cry more
Bruh! Why would you do this to us?!?
Marco why???!!! :'(
"What is going on" Nasa sends back a single message "Just try your best while you slowly painfully disintegrate in the atmosphere"
Every one of these comments is making me cry even more. 😢😢😭😭😭
For but a fleeting moment, the canvass of endless space relinquished its darkness; pierced by the brilliant beacon of humanity's ardent aspirations. Dazzling, spectacular, its beauty blazoned the skies of a distant world with radiant hues. Perhaps those who might have witnessed it would have paused briefly, in awe.
Eloquently spoken, was it your own?
@@someoneelse6618 yes ofc ❤
@@tobymaximus ❤🤯
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This is good, thoughtful poetry. Thanks for that.
Please, PLEASE consider writing a novel. Preferably one relating to this type of subject. That is talent if I've ever seen it.
Its just a machine but a very capable and a very purposeful machine, i feel sad knowing that its gone, it feels like losing a dear friend. Bless Cassini for its mission completion.
thank you to Cassini for captured the beauty of Saturn for years until the end of its mission
Aw man. This reminds me of when I bawled for hours when opportunity sent his/her's last words "my battery is low and it's getting dark." Rip Cassini, you will forever be missed as the great probe who gave us an incredible amount of info on Saturn. Rest in peace Cassini.
I'm straight coming from watching Opportunity with my swollen eyes to here 🥺😭😭😭😭
Hours?
Its*
@Susan Wojecksi no they are piles of scrap metal, nothing more
yo I was kind of sad too. It was sacrificed..like it sacrificed it's life to help us... The way he was describing the ship's last moments too with the music playing..
I almost teared up when he said "Cassini didn't know what was happening".
A grown man getting emotional over a machine....
Machines can't think..................................."I'll be back". :-)
A cruel backstabbing smug thing to do to Cassini who kept giving us beautiful gifts for so many years. 💖
Props for the brave astronaut whose story remains untold as he plunged in along with Cassini in order to give us these amazing views of Cassini before its death. May he rest in peace 😔
urine idjut!
This really amazes me how they can fly drones completely on a different planet and my cell phone gets shitty service🤦
minimal effort, maximum profit
Capitalism
Did you know? NASA's internet connection speed for wi-fi is 21GB/s. While for space probes, up to 622 MB/s
@@godleveltroll2353 take an electronics class you absolute goober. radio communications is old school stuff
@@godleveltroll2353 you wanna compare t-mobile to fucking NASA?!
Not gonna lie, when I heard it was EOM for Cassini-Huygens on September 15, I cried. The sheer amount of data and revelations it gave us will never be understated. Godspeed
Perfect lol
back in 1997 there was a website set up by ESA/NASA where everyone could post a message which then would be encoded on a special disc that went with Cassini. I left a message back then. Still feels amazing I had that opportunity. :)
Thank you Cassini you will be forever immortalized, inside the most beautiful planet.
I LOVE the amount of people who felt an unexplained emotional connection with Cassini while it was in it's last moments, desperately trying to stay aligned with earth.
I too shed a tear.
I'm now looking forward to October this year! The launch of the James Webb space telescope!
Yes, faith in mankind, somewhat restored. :)
After all, it is our heavenly reflection. We could never reach the heights it did with bodies so fragile so we sent it in our stead.
Giovanni di cassini
Smiling from heaven
With cassini probe resting on his lap
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Jesus... Just take the emotional knife this story stabbed into our hearts and twist it, lol
i can't believe the final journey of a little space probe would make me teary-eyed. It's amazing how these technologies that were deployed from years ago could still produce these high-res images and very intricate space data. I still dream that one day we could finally explore these gas giants beneath their atmosphere.
This video made me cry, what a great machine and how much science contributed
*I've spent so long admiring you from afar.*
*I've seen the beauty of your moons and the splendor of your rings.*
*to those who sent me on this journey you are just a distant star but to me you are so much more,*
*for we have spent years in a cosmic waltz you and I.*
*I've lived in envy of the light for it has the privilege of knowing your touch,*
*today is the day I make my move and if not may the endless abyss swallow me and I never return or my we finally embrace my love,*
*even if it kills me*
- Cassini-Huygens, of Earth.
beautiful
this is incredibly beautiful. do you write?
@@squish9479 I used to in high school to kill time that was years ago though
also thank you for the compliment :)
Nice but you should look over after writing
Cassini: NASA, I don't feel so good
NASA: I'm sorry little one
I can't with your pp ...... Franky!
Szia uram
Thank you Astrum for the video. Love all your videos and I enjoy all the information.
we may amaze ourselves but the universe has gems in store.
Hearing Cassini's mission and story kinda shoot me on the heart. I've felt special connection with him while he was still struggling during his final moments. Thank you Cassini for completing your mission. You're contribution will surely contributes to the human race. Farewell Sir.
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It's hard to believe these images are actual photos. They look so incredible, so beautiful, so perfect. One could be forgiven for thinking they were man made interpretations. I love modern technology.
Reality have shown to be way more amazing than anything that we have thought before
cassini burning was not real though
They are man made
U really think something like that exists in reality ?
If I'm not mistaken Cassini was actually launched some time in the mid 90's so relatively speaking Cassini was retro tech by the time it even arrived at Saturn, truely impressive engineering, I look forward to the Dragonfly Mission with great interest
yeah, sometimes reality is unbelievably crazy looking. I remember hearing that some of the scenes they filmed for GOT in Iceland were so beautiful, they actually considered toning down the natural ice colors to make it "more believable".
Beautiful, Alex.
I like the way your voice sounds like you're smiling the whole time.
The Cassini Huygens mission is one of my favorite space explorations missions of all time. It was so fruitful and successful the abundance of beautiful images it captured and data is astounding. I'm so looking forward to the Dragonfly mission and the images and hopefully videos it will bless us with as well as fascinating data to answer our burning questions in regards to Titan's processes and if there is some exotic silicon life. Granted I do not believe we have any tech that can even scan and determine silicon based life. That's going to have to be an entirely new science.
Cassini’s journey is one of the most beautiful things I’ve had the opportunity to be alive to experience. If you haven’t, you should listen to the song Cassini by Sleeping At Last, an orchestral track dedicated to the mission’s finale
Agreed, however Juno is as beautiful, it showed Jupiter as a most beautiful marble ever created.
Do not forget rover's on mars please
Everyone has their own favorite mission it seems, and that's a good thing. Thank you for the recommendation, will go to that next :)
I've experienced the moon landings, the IRAS telescope(that "opened" my eyes) and now the journeys. THE golden age!
Htos 1av why did IRAS open your eyes?
7:18 I can’t help but anthropomorphize but it feels like Cassini is going “Guys? Something is wrong I think I’m spinning. I’m going to try to fix this with my thrusters...hello? Anyone...? (Crashes into planet)”
daisy daisyyy givvveee meeeeeeeeeeeeeee yo........
I imagined it cursing the scientists that gave the order for it to fly into the planet.
CAN YOU HEAR ME MAJOR TOM?
This was a lot more emotional than I thought it would be
The voiceover made all the difference. Turning just a visual to an emotional experience.