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NASA's Cassini spacecraft crashed in the Saturn this morning ending a 20-year mission to conduct scientific experiments centered around Saturn's unusual rings and nearby moons Cassini flight director Julie Webster called loss of signal from the spacecraft around 5 a.m. Pacific time Seanie program director earl mays congratulated the team and their great success with the mission signals from the spacecraft just go on and within the next 45 seconds so will be the spacecraft I hope you're all as deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment congratulations to you all this has been an incredible mission an incredible spacecraft and you're all an incredible team now I'm going to call this the unit of mission project manager off the net Cassini was launched in 1997 and traveled to Saturn arriving in 2004 it brought with it the Huygens probe which was dropped on the Saturn's massive moon of Titan Cassini also studied the nearby moon of Enceladus and recently flew through the gap between Saturn's rings and the planet itself Cassini was crashed in the Saturn to avoid contaminating Saturn's nearby moons which both contain liquid oceans read more about the Cassini mission at cnet.com you