Nasa kills off Cassini after 2. After 2. 0 years in space, Nasas Cassini spacecraft has finally completed its suicide mission, plunging into Saturns atmosphere. While we were unable to see Cassinis dying moments, an animation released by Nasa reconstructs the probes last few minutes as it tumbled through Saturns atmosphere at 7. The confirmation of the mission was received at Nasas Jet Propulsion unit at 0. EST 1. 2 5. 6 BST today. Upon receiving the news, Earl Maize, program manager for Cassini, announced The signal from the spacecraft has gone. Watch Before The Sun Explodes Streaming' title='Watch Before The Sun Explodes Streaming' />Congratulations, this has been an incredible mission and incredible spacecraft. In its thirteen years at Saturn and two decades in space, the 4 billion 3 billion Cassini probe has transformed our understanding of the ringed planet and its moons. It has watched giant storms on the gas giant, recorded its ring system in stunning detail, and revealed incredible new insights on the potential habitability of Saturns moons. The decision to kill off Cassini was taken because the craft would soon run out of fuel and become impossible to steer. Scientists feared a collision with Titan or Enceladus two of Saturns moons that in the past 1. Scroll down for video After 2. Nasas Cassini spacecraft has finally completed its suicide mission, plunging into Saturns atmosphere. The confirmation of the mission was received at Nasas Jet Propulsion unit at 0. EST 1. 2 5. 6 BST today. Nasas animation imagine what the death dive would have looked like First, they expect the probe to have shed layers of insulating material. Then its large external structures, including the 1. It is also possible that propellant left in Cassinis fuel tanks may have exploded. Meanwhile, atmospheric friction will have sent temperatures soaring. By the time what was left of Cassini reached the cloud tops it would have been transformed into a glowing fragmenting meteor, hotter than the surface of the sun. Finally, intense heat and pressure would have caused every part of the space craft to melt and dissociate, scattering its atoms to the winds of Saturn. Cassinis death plunge was the climax of a grand finale that saw the probe slip between Saturn and its rings in 2. Nasas animation imagines what the death dive would have looked like. First, they expect the probe to have shed layers of insulating material. Free Movies, Watch Movie Online for free with HD streaming, you also can download any movie, series without registration. Watch latest movies in HD quality free. Its cake versus ice cream for Splatoon 2s first Splatfest and were streaming all the fun live on our Twitch channel. Come and join the mayhemThen its large external structures, including the 1. This would be followed by other body mounted components, and eventually the leading face of the space craft itself. Meanwhile, atmospheric friction will have sent temperatures soaring. By the time what was left of Cassini reached the cloud tops it would have been transformed into a glowing fragmenting meteor, hotter than the surface of the sun. Finally, intense heat and pressure would have caused every part of the space craft to melt and dissociate, scattering its atoms to the winds of Saturn. Fifteen minutes before the end, the voice of Dr Maize could be heard in a live stream from mission control telling his team This might be a good time to pass out the farewell peanuts. Earlier Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Mike Watkins told a Nasa interviewer Its kind of a bitter sweet event for all of us. For me personally, its more sweet than bitter, because Cassini has been such a fantastic mission. During the live feed, experts from Nasa described the event as the last hour of the last chapter of Cassinis Grand Finale. CASSINIS DISCOVERIES IN ITS 2. Watch Live Evil Streaming here. YEAR MISSIONCassini launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1. Saturn. In 2. 00. Jupiter before reaching Saturn in 2. In that time, it discovered six more moons around Saturn, three dimensional structures towering above Saturns rings, and a giant storm that raged across the planet for nearly a year. On 1. 3 December 2. Saturns moons Titan and Dione. On 2. 4 December it released the European Space Agency built Huygens probe on Saturns moon Titan to study its atmosphere and surface composition. TheINQUIRER publishes daily news, reviews on the latest gadgets and devices, and INQdepth articles for tech buffs and hobbyists. There it discovered eerie hydrocarbon lakes made from ethane and methane. In 2. 00. 8, Cassini completed its primary mission to explore the Saturn system and began its mission extension the Cassini Equinox Mission. In 2. 01. 0 it began its second mission Cassini Solstice Mission which lasted until today when it exploded in Saturns atmosphere. C394' alt='Watch Before The Sun Explodes Streaming' title='Watch Before The Sun Explodes Streaming' />In December 2. Cassini obtained the highest resolution images of Saturns moon Enceladus. In December of the following year it tracked the transit of Venus to test the feasibility of observing planets outside our solar system. In March 2. 01. 3 Cassini made the last flyby of Saturns moon Rhea and measured its internal structure and gravitational pull. In July of that year Cassini captured a black lit Saturn to examine the rings in fine detail and also captured an image of Earth. In April of this year it completed its closest flyby of Titan and started its Grande Finale orbit which finished today. The mission has changed the way we think of where life may have developed beyond our Earth, said Andrew Coates, head of the Planetary Science Group at Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London. As well as Mars, outer planet moons like Enceladus, Europa and even Titan are now top contenders for life elsewhere, he added. Weve completely rewritten the textbooks about Saturn. The confirmation of Cassinis death was at 0. EST 1. 2 5. 6 BST, when Mr Maize said The signal from the spacecraft has gone. Congratulations, this has been an incredible mission and incredible spacecraftProject manager Earl Maize, centre, shakes hands with Bill Heventhal left head of Uplink Operations in mission control at Nasas Jet Propulsion Lab. Cassini science team members Nora Alonge R, Scott Edgington C and Jo Pitesky L hug as the final loss of signal from the Cassini spacecraft is confirmed. Cassini science team member Nora Alonge reacts after the final loss of signal from the Cassini spacecraft is confirmed, indicating Cassinis destruction in Saturns atmosphere and the end of Cassinis 2. CASSINIS FINAL DATA COLLECTION At 4 5. ET 9 5. 5 am BST, Cassinis engineers received the signal that the probe had started a five minute roll. This allowed it to point the instrument that sampled Saturns atmosphere, the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer INMS, into the direction of the oncoming gases of the planet. The INMS is capable of determining the chemical, elemental and isotopic composition of the gaseous and volatile components of the neutral particles and the low energy ions in Saturns atmosphere. It will allow scientists to measure the amounts, in atomic mass per elementary charge, of water vapor, methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, any simple organics, complex organics and other components identified in the atmosphere. The craft is transmitting this data at a rate of 2. MbpsThe average home broadband speed in the UK is 4. Mbps upload and 3. Mbps download. With just 1. Cassini was travelling at around 7. At this point, Cassini only had one per cent of its fuel sources left. But the radio loss depended on how much of a fight Cassinis thrusters put up against Saturns atmosphere. Cassini burned up like a meteor 8. Saturns atmosphere, becoming one with the giant gas planet it set out in 1. But it took that long for the news to arrive at Earth a billion miles away. The only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn, Cassini showed us the planet, its rings and moons up close in all their glory. Watch Stingray Sam Full Movie'>Watch Stingray Sam Full Movie. Perhaps most tantalizing, ocean worlds were unveiled by Cassini and its hitchhiking companion, the Huygens lander, on the moons Enceladus and Titan, which could possibly harbor life. Cassini snapped its last memento photos of the Saturn system Thursday. Dutiful to the end, the spacecraft sampled Saturns atmosphere Friday morning as it made its final plunge. Flight controllers wearing matching purple shirts stood and embraced and shook hands.