https://www.newscientist.com/article/2147610-final-pictures-from-cassini-as-probe-smashes-into-saturn/ > Cassini is dead; long live Cassini. On the evening of 14 September, the Cassini spacecraft sent back its final images of the Saturn system. Early this morning, it sank into the top of the giant planet’s atmosphere and melted. It survived about 30 seconds longer than scientists expected. > The epic mission’s legacy will live on in the thousands of pictures it has taken and the data that will fuel new scientific results for decades to come.