1 00:00:06,005 --> 00:00:12,679 WELCOME TO N.A.S.A.'S JET 2 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:13,279 PROPULSION LABORATORY. 3 00:00:13,279 --> 00:00:16,850 THE IT HAS ENDED THE END OF ITS 4 00:00:16,850 --> 00:00:17,250 JOURNEY. 5 00:00:17,250 --> 00:00:18,718 THE SPACECRAFT MADE ITS FINAL 6 00:00:18,718 --> 00:00:21,154 APPROACH TO THE PLANET AND 7 00:00:21,154 --> 00:00:24,758 PLUNGED INTO SATURN'S UPPER 8 00:00:24,758 --> 00:00:25,759 ATMOSPHERE, ENDING THE MISSION. 9 00:00:25,759 --> 00:00:29,062 DUE TO THE TIME IT TAKES FOR THE 10 00:00:29,062 --> 00:00:31,064 SIGNALS TO TRAVEL ALMOST A 11 00:00:31,064 --> 00:00:32,298 BILLION MILES BETWEEN THE PLANET 12 00:00:32,298 --> 00:00:34,534 AND EARTH, THE TEAM WON'T HAVE 13 00:00:34,534 --> 00:00:36,369 CONFIRMATION THAT THE MISSION 14 00:00:36,369 --> 00:00:39,372 HAS ENDED UNTIL THEY SEE ITS 15 00:00:39,372 --> 00:00:41,141 SIGNAL DROP AWAY. 16 00:00:41,141 --> 00:00:43,710 THE DEEP SPACE NETWORK IS 17 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:44,677 MONITORING THE SIGNAL. 18 00:00:44,677 --> 00:00:48,248 AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE CSN NOW 19 00:00:48,248 --> 00:00:48,581 DISPLAY. 20 00:00:48,581 --> 00:00:51,618 IT'S BEING TRACKED BY A 70 METRE 21 00:00:51,618 --> 00:00:55,288 WIDE ANTENNA, AN ETEN A43 IN 22 00:00:55,288 --> 00:00:55,922 CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. 23 00:00:55,922 --> 00:01:03,897 HERE IS A -- ANTENNA 43 IN 24 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:04,464 CANBERRA AUSTRALIA. 25 00:01:04,464 --> 00:01:07,267 THEY'RE KEEPING AN EYE ON THE 26 00:01:07,267 --> 00:01:07,867 TRANSMISSION. 27 00:01:07,867 --> 00:01:09,803 MEANWHILE IT IS 4AM HERE IN 28 00:01:09,803 --> 00:01:10,203 CALIFORNIA. 29 00:01:10,203 --> 00:01:13,506 THE SUN IS NOT UP YET AND MORE 30 00:01:13,506 --> 00:01:18,545 THAN 1500 SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, 31 00:01:18,545 --> 00:01:19,746 ALUMNI FRIENDS AND FAMILY HAVE 32 00:01:19,746 --> 00:01:21,181 GATHERED FOR THIS MOMENT. 33 00:01:21,181 --> 00:01:22,816 THE FLIGHT TEAM IS IN THE 34 00:01:22,816 --> 00:01:25,919 MISSION CONTROL AREA. 35 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:29,222 OTHERS HAVE GATHERED IN JPL AND 36 00:01:29,222 --> 00:01:35,094 STILL MORE ARE AT CALTECK IN 37 00:01:35,094 --> 00:01:35,562 PASADENA. 38 00:01:35,562 --> 00:01:37,464 FOLKS WANTED TO BE TOGETHER TO 39 00:01:37,464 --> 00:01:38,431 JOIN THIS MOMENT. 40 00:01:38,431 --> 00:01:39,966 IT IS A VISUAL BUT ALSO A 41 00:01:39,966 --> 00:01:41,935 CELEBRATION OF A REMARKABLE 42 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:42,802 MISSION. 43 00:01:42,802 --> 00:01:45,872 THIS IS THE LAST HOUR OF THE 44 00:01:45,872 --> 00:01:50,143 LAST CHAPTER OF THE GRAND 45 00:01:50,143 --> 00:01:52,879 FINALE. 46 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:55,215 [ ♪♪♪ ]. 47 00:01:55,215 --> 00:01:58,685 >> AN LONE EXPLORER, ON A 48 00:01:58,685 --> 00:02:02,655 MISSION TO REVEAL THE GRANDEUR 49 00:02:02,655 --> 00:02:07,760 OF SATURN, IT'S RINGS AND MOONS. 50 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,294 [ ♪♪♪ ]. 51 00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:11,831 >> AFTER 20 YEARS IN SPACE, 52 00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:15,101 N.A.S.A.'S SPACECRAFT IS RUNNING 53 00:02:15,101 --> 00:02:17,170 OUT OF FUEL. 54 00:02:17,170 --> 00:02:22,242 SO TO PROTECT THE MOONS OF 55 00:02:22,242 --> 00:02:27,447 SATURN WHICH COULD HAVE AN AREA 56 00:02:27,447 --> 00:02:34,187 FOR LIFE, CONDITIONS FOR LIFE. 57 00:02:34,187 --> 00:02:38,992 >> THREE, TWO, ONE, AND LIFT OFF 58 00:02:38,992 --> 00:02:43,563 OF THE SPACECRAFT ON A TREK TO 59 00:02:43,563 --> 00:02:47,667 SATURN. 60 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:51,538 [♪] IN 2004 FOLLOWING A 61 00:02:51,538 --> 00:02:52,605 SEVEN-YEAR JOURNEY THROUGH THE 62 00:02:52,605 --> 00:02:59,212 SOLAR SYSTEM, IT ARRIVES AT 63 00:02:59,212 --> 00:02:59,546 SATURN. 64 00:02:59,546 --> 00:03:03,983 >> THE SPACECRAFT CARRIED A 65 00:03:03,983 --> 00:03:07,120 PASSENGER, THE EUROPEAN PROBE, 66 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,155 THE FIRST HUMAN-MADE OBJECT TO 67 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:12,258 LAND IN A WORLD IN THE OUTER 68 00:03:12,258 --> 00:03:14,260 SOLAR SYSTEM. 69 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:16,996 FOR OVER A DECADE IT WILL SHARE 70 00:03:16,996 --> 00:03:20,533 THE WONDERS OF SATURN AND ITS 71 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:25,371 FAMILY OF ICY MOONS, TAKING US 72 00:03:25,371 --> 00:03:27,840 TO ANOTHER WORLD, WHERE JETS OF 73 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,843 ICE AND GAS ARE BLASTING 74 00:03:30,843 --> 00:03:33,079 MATERIAL INTO SPACE FROM THE 75 00:03:33,079 --> 00:03:34,981 LIQUID WATER OCEAN THAT MIGHT 76 00:03:34,981 --> 00:03:38,084 HARBOUR THE INGREDIENTS FOR 77 00:03:38,084 --> 00:03:38,551 LIFE. 78 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:42,355 AND SATURN, A GIANT WORLD RULED 79 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:48,795 BY RAGING STORMS AND DELICATE 80 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:51,130 HARMONIES OF GRAVITY. 81 00:03:51,130 --> 00:04:03,443 NOW IT HAS ONE LAST ASSIGNMENT. 82 00:04:03,443 --> 00:04:03,810 [♪] 83 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:09,015 THE GRAND FINALE IS A BRAND NEW 84 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:09,382 ADVENTURE. 85 00:04:09,382 --> 00:04:11,384 AS IT REPEATEDLY BRAVES THIS 86 00:04:11,384 --> 00:04:14,153 UNEXPLORED REGION, IT SEEKS NEW 87 00:04:14,153 --> 00:04:15,455 INSIGHTS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF 88 00:04:15,455 --> 00:04:19,058 THE RAIN AND THE NATURE OF THE 89 00:04:19,058 --> 00:04:21,928 PLANET'S INTERIOR, CLOSER TO 90 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:29,202 SATURN THAN EVER BEFORE. 91 00:04:29,202 --> 00:04:32,939 ON THE FINAL ORBIT, IT WILL 92 00:04:32,939 --> 00:04:36,676 PLUNGE INTO SATURN SATE FIGHTING 93 00:04:36,676 --> 00:04:39,145 TO KEEP POINTED AT EARTH AS IT 94 00:04:39,145 --> 00:04:42,415 TRANSMITS ITS FAREWELL. 95 00:04:42,415 --> 00:04:47,387 IN THE SKIES OF SATURN, THE 96 00:04:47,387 --> 00:04:50,456 JOURNEY ENDS. 97 00:04:50,456 --> 00:04:57,497 IT BECOMES PART OF THE PLANET. 98 00:05:14,013 --> 00:05:06,472 [ ♪♪♪ ] 99 00:05:14,013 --> 00:05:19,752 [♪] OKAY. 100 00:05:19,752 --> 00:05:21,688 LET'S DO THE NUMBERS. 101 00:05:21,688 --> 00:05:23,856 THE MISSION HAS TRAVELLED NEARLY 102 00:05:23,856 --> 00:05:27,560 5 BILLION MILES SINCE LAUNCH, 103 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,397 EXECUTED 2.5 MILLION COMMANDS, 104 00:05:31,397 --> 00:05:35,201 TAKEN 453,000 PLUS IMAGES, 105 00:05:35,201 --> 00:05:38,271 DISCOVERED SIX MOONS, PUBLISHED 106 00:05:38,271 --> 00:05:40,873 NEARLY 4,000 SCIENCE PAPERS AND 107 00:05:40,873 --> 00:05:42,141 IT'S NOT DONE. 108 00:05:42,141 --> 00:05:44,177 IT IS SENDING HOME DATA RIGHT 109 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:45,912 NOW RIGHT TO THE END. 110 00:05:45,912 --> 00:05:48,815 LET'S TAKE A LOOK NOW AND TALK 111 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:51,417 TO THE PROGRAM MANAGER ABOUT 112 00:05:51,417 --> 00:05:51,718 THIS. 113 00:05:51,718 --> 00:05:53,586 AFTER A LINE-UP LIKE THAT, YOU 114 00:05:53,586 --> 00:05:54,887 HAVE TO BE IMPRESSED. 115 00:05:54,887 --> 00:05:57,423 >> WE WERE IMPRESSED. 116 00:05:57,423 --> 00:05:59,859 -- WE ARE IMPRESSED. 117 00:05:59,859 --> 00:06:02,462 WE'RE PROUD OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN 118 00:06:02,462 --> 00:06:04,797 ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH OVER THE LAST 119 00:06:04,797 --> 00:06:05,198 13 YEARS. 120 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:07,300 >>> WHY MUST WE END IT THIS WAY? 121 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:08,768 >> IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT A 122 00:06:08,768 --> 00:06:11,404 LITTLE BIT, YOU WILL FIND OUT WE 123 00:06:11,404 --> 00:06:13,172 DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHOICE. 124 00:06:13,172 --> 00:06:16,242 IT MUST BE DISPOSED OF PROPERLY. 125 00:06:16,242 --> 00:06:17,577 AT SOME POINT. 126 00:06:17,577 --> 00:06:21,948 THERE ARE INTERNATIONAL 127 00:06:21,948 --> 00:06:23,015 AGREEMENTS THAT WE CAN'T ALLOW 128 00:06:23,015 --> 00:06:24,016 IT THERE. 129 00:06:24,016 --> 00:06:25,852 WE HAVE GOT TO DO SOMETHING 130 00:06:25,852 --> 00:06:26,486 ABOUT IT. 131 00:06:26,486 --> 00:06:28,855 WE COULD HAVE SENT IT AWAY FROM 132 00:06:28,855 --> 00:06:31,724 SATURN, BUT SATURN WAS SO 133 00:06:31,724 --> 00:06:33,426 COMPELLING, SO EXCITING AND THE 134 00:06:33,426 --> 00:06:35,528 MISSION THAT WE FINALLY CAME UP 135 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:38,364 WITH IS SO RICH SCIENTIFICALLY 136 00:06:38,364 --> 00:06:41,033 THAT WE HAD TO FINISH UP AT 137 00:06:41,033 --> 00:06:43,269 SATURN, NOT SOME PLACE ELSE. 138 00:06:43,269 --> 00:06:44,971 THE MISSION REALLY STARTED ABOUT 139 00:06:44,971 --> 00:06:46,038 SEVEN YEARS AGO. 140 00:06:46,038 --> 00:06:47,507 WE'VE BEEN ON THIS PATH TO END 141 00:06:47,507 --> 00:06:50,877 UP RIGHT NOW IN LESS THAN AN 142 00:06:50,877 --> 00:06:51,177 HOUR. 143 00:06:51,177 --> 00:06:52,311 >>> LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT IS 144 00:06:52,311 --> 00:06:55,181 ABOUT TO HAPPEN AND WALK VIEWERS 145 00:06:55,181 --> 00:06:57,283 THROUGH WHAT TO EXPECT. 146 00:06:57,283 --> 00:06:58,084 >> SURE. 147 00:06:58,084 --> 00:07:00,153 >>> IT STARTS WITH MONDAY AND 148 00:07:00,153 --> 00:07:01,020 THE KISS GOODBYE. 149 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:03,322 COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THAT. 150 00:07:03,322 --> 00:07:03,856 >> OKAY. 151 00:07:03,856 --> 00:07:07,760 THIS FIRST GRAPHIC, THIS IS THE 152 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,263 LAST 22 MOVEMENTS OF SATURN. 153 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:12,398 THEY ARE GOING BETWEEN THE RINGS 154 00:07:12,398 --> 00:07:15,001 AND SATURN UNEXPLORED TERRITORY, 155 00:07:15,001 --> 00:07:16,502 FANTASTIC SCIENCE EVERY TIME. 156 00:07:16,502 --> 00:07:18,571 WHAT'S BEEN ALSO HAPPENING IS 157 00:07:18,571 --> 00:07:20,006 THAT OUT OF THERE FURTHER AWAY 158 00:07:20,006 --> 00:07:22,942 IS TITAN AND THAT COMES BY 159 00:07:22,942 --> 00:07:24,644 EVERY NOW AND AGAIN, AND YOU 160 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:26,078 WILL SEE IT FOR ONE LAST FINAL 161 00:07:26,078 --> 00:07:26,913 KISS GOODBYE. 162 00:07:26,913 --> 00:07:27,814 THAT WAS IT. 163 00:07:27,814 --> 00:07:30,016 IT WAS VERY QUICK. 164 00:07:30,016 --> 00:07:30,716 DON'T BLINK. 165 00:07:30,716 --> 00:07:35,087 WHAT HAPPENED ON MONDAY WAS THAT 166 00:07:35,087 --> 00:07:38,024 TITAN CAME BY AND GIVE ONE LAST 167 00:07:38,024 --> 00:07:40,126 NUDGE, IT SLOWS DOWN JUST ENOUGH 168 00:07:40,126 --> 00:07:41,861 SO THAT OUR ENTRY INTO SATURN IN 169 00:07:41,861 --> 00:07:46,465 A FEW MINUTES NOW IS ABSOLUTELY 170 00:07:46,465 --> 00:07:46,866 INEVITABLE. 171 00:07:46,866 --> 00:07:49,368 >>> SO, THE FATE IS JUST SEALED. 172 00:07:49,368 --> 00:07:51,103 >> SEALED ABSOLUTELY DONE. 173 00:07:51,103 --> 00:07:52,238 THERE WASN'T MUCH WE COULD HAVE 174 00:07:52,238 --> 00:07:54,073 DONE ABOUT IT BEFORE BECAUSE IT 175 00:07:54,073 --> 00:07:55,441 HAD BEEN SO WIRED IN, BUT AFTER 176 00:07:55,441 --> 00:07:58,778 THE TITANFULLY BUY THERE'S 177 00:07:58,778 --> 00:08:03,049 NOTHING -- TITN FULLY BUY, 178 00:08:03,049 --> 00:08:06,252 THERE IS NOTHING WOULD CAN DO. 179 00:08:06,252 --> 00:08:07,119 >> IT IS STILL A SCIENCE 180 00:08:07,119 --> 00:08:07,453 MACHINE. 181 00:08:07,453 --> 00:08:09,856 MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING 182 00:08:09,856 --> 00:08:10,790 IS GATHERING MORE SCIENCE. 183 00:08:10,790 --> 00:08:12,458 IF YOU LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC, 184 00:08:12,458 --> 00:08:17,263 THERE IS THE TITAN, THE KISS 185 00:08:17,263 --> 00:08:20,700 GOODBYE ON SEPTEMBER 11, THEN 186 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,401 TURNING AROUND, PLAYED ALL THE 187 00:08:22,401 --> 00:08:25,471 DATA BACK, IT'S ON THE MONITORS 188 00:08:25,471 --> 00:08:27,406 AS YOU CAN SEE, PLAY BACK ALL 189 00:08:27,406 --> 00:08:29,242 THE DATA, GOOD VIEWS OF THE 190 00:08:29,242 --> 00:08:31,410 LAKES AND THE CLOUDS AGAIN, THEN 191 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:33,846 IT TURNED BACK AROUND AGAIN FOR 192 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:35,815 ITS FINAL SET OF SCIENCE 193 00:08:35,815 --> 00:08:36,249 OBSERVATIONS. 194 00:08:36,249 --> 00:08:37,817 WE ACTUALLY DID A LITTLE BIT OF 195 00:08:37,817 --> 00:08:45,391 SCIENCE AND A LITTLE BIT OF JUST 196 00:08:45,391 --> 00:08:49,562 LAST PICTURES, RINGS, PLANET AND 197 00:08:49,562 --> 00:08:52,765 WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE 198 00:08:52,765 --> 00:08:53,833 PROPELLARS THERE. 199 00:08:53,833 --> 00:08:56,102 THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF SCIENCE 200 00:08:56,102 --> 00:09:01,707 AND JUST KIND OF LAST PHOTOS AND 201 00:09:01,707 --> 00:09:03,175 THEY WERE PLAYED BACK YESTERDAY 202 00:09:03,175 --> 00:09:03,542 AFTERNOON. 203 00:09:03,542 --> 00:09:05,544 IT TURNED BACK FOR A FINAL CALL 204 00:09:05,544 --> 00:09:09,415 TO EARTH, PLAYED THE DATA BACK. 205 00:09:09,415 --> 00:09:11,183 IT IS AVAILABLE. 206 00:09:11,183 --> 00:09:12,985 ABOUT 1 O'CLOCK MORNING ALL THE 207 00:09:12,985 --> 00:09:14,587 DATA WAS ON THE GROUND. 208 00:09:14,587 --> 00:09:16,255 IT THEN WENT UP FOR, GOING BACK 209 00:09:16,255 --> 00:09:20,993 TO THE TIMELINE FOR A MOMENT. 210 00:09:20,993 --> 00:09:22,128 GO BACK ONE. 211 00:09:22,128 --> 00:09:26,132 SEPTEMBER 15 AT 1.37, DOWN TO 212 00:09:26,132 --> 00:09:28,968 THE LAST PLOT, WE HAD A REAL 213 00:09:28,968 --> 00:09:30,136 TIME SATURN PROBE. 214 00:09:30,136 --> 00:09:31,904 EVERYTHING THAT COMES INTO THE 215 00:09:31,904 --> 00:09:32,972 SPACECRAFT GOES RIGHT OUT. 216 00:09:32,972 --> 00:09:35,441 SO THERE IS NO DELAY, OR LITTLE 217 00:09:35,441 --> 00:09:38,311 DELAY, SO WE CAN BECOME AN 218 00:09:38,311 --> 00:09:39,879 ATMOSPHERE SAMPLING MISSION. 219 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,516 AT 4.55AM, GIVE OR TAKE A FEW 220 00:09:43,516 --> 00:09:46,352 SECONDS ON THAT, WE WILL BE 221 00:09:46,352 --> 00:09:47,920 ENTERING INTO SATURN'S 222 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:48,321 ATMOSPHERE. 223 00:09:48,321 --> 00:09:49,021 >>> TO THE NEXT DISPLAY. 224 00:09:49,021 --> 00:09:51,257 THIS IS WHAT IS GOING TO BE 225 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:52,758 HAPPENING WITHIN THE LAST HOUR. 226 00:09:52,758 --> 00:09:53,659 >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. 227 00:09:53,659 --> 00:09:55,962 WE CAME IN OVER THE NORTH, JUST 228 00:09:55,962 --> 00:09:58,931 A LITTLE BIT EAST FROM THAT 229 00:09:58,931 --> 00:09:59,332 PERSPECTIVE. 230 00:09:59,332 --> 00:10:01,300 ACTUALLY IT LOOKS WEST HERE, BUT 231 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:03,035 OVER THE NORTH POLE, JUST BEFORE 232 00:10:03,035 --> 00:10:04,637 4 O'CLOCK MORNING. WE WERE 6 233 00:10:04,637 --> 00:10:05,371 DEGREES NORTH. 234 00:10:05,371 --> 00:10:08,607 AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT DESCENT IS 235 00:10:08,607 --> 00:10:08,941 RAPID. 236 00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:11,377 IN 20 MINUTES WE WILL BE AT 50 237 00:10:11,377 --> 00:10:13,379 DEGREES NORTH AND 12 MINUTES 238 00:10:13,379 --> 00:10:16,282 LATER, 40 AND VERY RAPIDLY 239 00:10:16,282 --> 00:10:16,682 INCREASING. 240 00:10:16,682 --> 00:10:19,051 THE 10 DEGREE NORTH LATITUDE 241 00:10:19,051 --> 00:10:20,152 IMPACT POINT IS JUST ABOUT WHERE 242 00:10:20,152 --> 00:10:22,989 WE'RE GOING TO FINISH UP. 243 00:10:22,989 --> 00:10:24,457 IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ABOUT FIVE 244 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:26,325 OF FIVE THIS MORNING LOCAL TIME. 245 00:10:26,325 --> 00:10:28,694 >>> THE LAST 90 SECONDS. 246 00:10:28,694 --> 00:10:30,162 >> THE LAST 90 SECONDS, THIS IS 247 00:10:30,162 --> 00:10:31,697 REALLY WHERE IT IS GOING TO BE 248 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:32,698 HAPPENING. 249 00:10:32,698 --> 00:10:35,935 IT IS NOT GOING TO NOTICE SATURN 250 00:10:35,935 --> 00:10:37,903 UNTIL THE LAST 90 SECONDS 251 00:10:37,903 --> 00:10:39,138 BECAUSE IT'S IN FREE FALL AROUND 252 00:10:39,138 --> 00:10:40,773 THE GRAVITATIONAL BODY. 253 00:10:40,773 --> 00:10:42,441 IT IS DOING ITS THING, BUT 254 00:10:42,441 --> 00:10:44,510 BETWEEN 70 AND 60 SECONDS OUT 255 00:10:44,510 --> 00:10:46,178 FROM FINAL IMPACT, IT WILL START 256 00:10:46,178 --> 00:10:47,380 TO NOTICE THE ATMOSPHERE AND YOU 257 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:50,416 CAN SEE IN THIS GRAPHIC THE VERY 258 00:10:50,416 --> 00:10:51,817 TENUOUS ATMOSPHERE STARTING TO 259 00:10:51,817 --> 00:10:52,218 EXPERIENCE. 260 00:10:52,218 --> 00:10:53,786 IT HAS BEEN FIGHTING THAT 261 00:10:53,786 --> 00:10:54,320 ATMOSPHERE BEFORE. 262 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,956 AS A MATTER OF FACT FOR THE LAST 263 00:10:56,956 --> 00:10:58,858 FIVE REVS WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT. 264 00:10:58,858 --> 00:11:00,393 IT HAS DONE VERY WELL, BUT THIS 265 00:11:00,393 --> 00:11:01,727 TIME BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO GO 266 00:11:01,727 --> 00:11:03,662 IN SO DEEP, THERE'S NOT A CHANCE 267 00:11:03,662 --> 00:11:05,431 THAT IT CAN FIGHT TO HOLD ON TO 268 00:11:05,431 --> 00:11:06,098 THE ATMOSPHERE. 269 00:11:06,098 --> 00:11:07,166 THAT ATMOSPHERE WHERE WE HAVE 270 00:11:07,166 --> 00:11:09,568 BEEN FIGHTING IS SO FAR ABOUT 271 00:11:09,568 --> 00:11:12,405 THE SAME DENSITY AS THE 272 00:11:12,405 --> 00:11:13,205 ATMOSPHERE THAT'S IN THE 273 00:11:13,205 --> 00:11:14,640 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HERE 274 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:15,174 ON EARTH. 275 00:11:15,174 --> 00:11:17,476 VERY THIN, BUT WE'RE GOING VERY, 276 00:11:17,476 --> 00:11:18,544 VERY FAST. 277 00:11:18,544 --> 00:11:19,412 >>> ALL RIGHT. 278 00:11:19,412 --> 00:11:21,781 WE HAVE THE ANIMATION FROM THE 279 00:11:21,781 --> 00:11:22,915 VIDEO EARLIER. 280 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:23,349 >> OKAY. 281 00:11:23,349 --> 00:11:24,917 >>> IT HELPS US ENVISION, 282 00:11:24,917 --> 00:11:28,788 ALTHOUGH IT MIGHT BE PAINFUL TO 283 00:11:28,788 --> 00:11:29,088 WATCH. 284 00:11:29,088 --> 00:11:30,056 >> WELL, IT IS ACTUALLY, 285 00:11:30,056 --> 00:11:32,058 WATCHING THIS, YOU CAN SEE THE 286 00:11:32,058 --> 00:11:33,459 THRUSTERS COMING OUT OF BACK TO 287 00:11:33,459 --> 00:11:33,859 BACK. 288 00:11:33,859 --> 00:11:35,895 IT STARTS TO ENCOUNTER THE 289 00:11:35,895 --> 00:11:36,295 ATMOSPHERE. 290 00:11:36,295 --> 00:11:37,863 THOSE ARE SMALL THRUSTERS. 291 00:11:37,863 --> 00:11:40,199 THEY JUST ARE NOT BUILT TO FIGHT 292 00:11:40,199 --> 00:11:42,701 THE KIND OF TORQUES. 293 00:11:42,701 --> 00:11:45,971 THAT'S THE ANTENNA. 294 00:11:45,971 --> 00:11:48,774 THE THEY'RE NOT BUILD TO HANDLE 295 00:11:48,774 --> 00:11:50,142 THE ATMOSPHERIC TORQUE AND DRAG 296 00:11:50,142 --> 00:11:51,043 THAT IT WILL EXPERIENCE. 297 00:11:51,043 --> 00:11:53,479 FOR ABOUT A MINUTE, IT WILL HANG 298 00:11:53,479 --> 00:11:53,746 ON. 299 00:11:53,746 --> 00:11:55,081 WE WILL BE SAMPLING THE 300 00:11:55,081 --> 00:11:56,115 ATMOSPHERE, SENDING THE DATA 301 00:11:56,115 --> 00:11:57,983 BACK AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN AND 302 00:11:57,983 --> 00:11:59,652 THEN FINALLY, OF COURSE, IT IS 303 00:11:59,652 --> 00:12:01,854 GOING TO LOSE THE BATTLE AND 304 00:12:01,854 --> 00:12:04,590 WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE WILL BE 305 00:12:04,590 --> 00:12:07,526 WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE, IT WILL 306 00:12:07,526 --> 00:12:10,096 BECOME COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY 307 00:12:10,096 --> 00:12:12,398 VAPORIZED, BECOMING PART OF THE 308 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:14,033 PLANET IT WENT TO EXPLORE. 309 00:12:14,033 --> 00:12:14,900 >> AS PLANNED. 310 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:15,434 >> EXACTLY. 311 00:12:15,434 --> 00:12:20,739 >> FOR THE TEAM, IT IS 312 00:12:20,739 --> 00:12:21,273 BITTERSWEET. 313 00:12:21,273 --> 00:12:23,142 THERE'S TREMENDOUS ENERGY HERE. 314 00:12:23,142 --> 00:12:24,810 I THINK WE'RE EXCITED. 315 00:12:24,810 --> 00:12:28,347 THIS IS EXACTLY THE WAY WE 316 00:12:28,347 --> 00:12:34,553 ALWAYS PLANNED THIS. 317 00:12:34,553 --> 00:12:36,989 NOW IT'S WORKING EXACTLY THE WAY 318 00:12:36,989 --> 00:12:40,059 WE SET IT UP. 319 00:12:40,059 --> 00:12:51,770 THE IMAGES -- 320 00:12:51,770 --> 00:12:53,706 >> THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING 321 00:12:53,706 --> 00:12:54,106 US. 322 00:12:54,106 --> 00:12:55,641 I'LL LET YOU BACK IN THE ROOM. 323 00:12:55,641 --> 00:12:57,943 I KNOW YOU WANT TO BE BACK IN 324 00:12:57,943 --> 00:12:59,011 HERE. 325 00:12:59,011 --> 00:13:03,048 MEANWHILE, DSN43 IN AUSTRALIA IS 326 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:05,584 THE ANTENNA LOCKED ON THE 327 00:13:05,584 --> 00:13:06,285 SIGNAL. 328 00:13:06,285 --> 00:13:09,288 LET'S CHECK THE UPDATE DISPLAY. 329 00:13:09,288 --> 00:13:12,424 THE EXPECTED LOSS OF SIGNAL IS 330 00:13:12,424 --> 00:13:16,962 4:55 A.M., AND THAT IS ABOUT 41 331 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:22,268 MINUTES AWAY FROM NOW. 332 00:13:22,268 --> 00:13:25,004 >> WE'VE MANAGED TO INSPIRE A 333 00:13:25,004 --> 00:13:28,174 YOUNGER GENERATION OF 334 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:29,408 SCIENTISTS, AND THEY WILL 335 00:13:29,408 --> 00:13:31,410 CONTINUE AFTER THIS IS OVER AND 336 00:13:31,410 --> 00:13:36,215 AFTER THE ORIGINAL INVESTIGATORS 337 00:13:36,215 --> 00:13:36,949 ARE GONE TO MARCH ON FOR THEIR 338 00:13:36,949 --> 00:13:38,884 OWN CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE 339 00:13:38,884 --> 00:13:43,088 SPACECRAFT EXPLORATION. 340 00:13:43,088 --> 00:13:46,258 >> LET'S LOOK BACK TO WHAT 341 00:13:46,258 --> 00:13:48,360 INSPIRED THE MISSION, AND THE 342 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,730 DAY CASSINI ARRIVED AT SATURN. 343 00:13:51,730 --> 00:13:57,369 IT WAS A JOINT EFFORT OF NASA, 344 00:13:57,369 --> 00:14:01,407 THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY AND 345 00:14:01,407 --> 00:14:02,741 ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY. 346 00:14:02,741 --> 00:14:04,310 SCIENTISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD 347 00:14:04,310 --> 00:14:18,490 INSISTED THEY HAD TO GO BACK. 348 00:14:18,490 --> 00:14:25,864 >> HELLO. 349 00:14:25,864 --> 00:14:26,599 THANKS TO THE WORLDWIDE WEB, I 350 00:14:26,599 --> 00:14:29,201 HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE PROGRESS 351 00:14:29,201 --> 00:14:32,204 OF CASSINI FROM THE TIME OF 352 00:14:32,204 --> 00:14:35,474 LAUNCH SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 353 00:14:35,474 --> 00:14:39,945 AS YOU KNOW, THERE IS BLOSSOMING 354 00:14:39,945 --> 00:14:42,314 INTEREST IN SATURN. 355 00:14:42,314 --> 00:14:44,750 SO I'M GOING TO BASE MY COURSE 356 00:14:44,750 --> 00:14:46,819 ON WHAT CASSINI DISCOVERS. 357 00:14:46,819 --> 00:14:48,254 WHO KNOWS. 358 00:14:48,254 --> 00:14:50,289 OUR SURVIVAL ON EARTH MAY DEPEND 359 00:14:50,289 --> 00:15:37,169 ON WHAT WE DISCOVER THERE. 360 00:15:37,169 --> 00:15:38,037 >> OKAY. 361 00:15:38,037 --> 00:15:45,144 WE ARE COMPLETE. 362 00:15:45,144 --> 00:15:48,080 >> FOR SATURN'S STRONG GRAVITY 363 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,716 BURNING IN, OR POINTING 364 00:15:50,716 --> 00:15:52,584 DIRECTION, AND WE'LL HOPE TO 365 00:15:52,584 --> 00:15:54,086 ACQUIRE A SIGNAL BEFORE THAT 366 00:15:54,086 --> 00:15:56,055 TURN COMPLETES. THE COMPLETION 367 00:15:56,055 --> 00:15:57,790 OF THAT TURN IS AROUND -- 368 00:15:57,790 --> 00:16:01,293 >> THE WORDS YOU HEARD 369 00:16:01,293 --> 00:16:02,661 ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL OF JUNE 370 00:16:02,661 --> 00:16:09,101 30th, 2004, WAS THE VOICE OF 371 00:16:09,101 --> 00:16:12,338 CASSINI ENGINEER, TODD BARBER, 372 00:16:12,338 --> 00:16:22,514 AND HE IS BACK HERE AGAIN TODAY. 373 00:16:22,514 --> 00:16:24,750 >> IT'S COOL TO AGE 13 YEARS IN 374 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:26,185 TWO SECONDS AND HAVE TO WATCH 375 00:16:26,185 --> 00:16:26,485 THAT. 376 00:16:26,485 --> 00:16:29,388 BUT WHAT A DEMONSTRATION OF THE 377 00:16:29,388 --> 00:16:30,589 LONGEVITY OF THIS MISSION. 378 00:16:30,589 --> 00:16:34,226 AS YOU AND I SAT THERE IN 2004, 379 00:16:34,226 --> 00:16:37,029 WE NEVER DREAMT WE'D BE HERE IN 380 00:16:37,029 --> 00:16:40,899 2017 STILL TALKING ABOUT CASSINI 381 00:16:40,899 --> 00:16:41,600 AND COLLECTING SCIENCE DATA. 382 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,069 I'M THRILLED TO BE HERE, EVEN 383 00:16:44,069 --> 00:16:49,541 HAVING AGED SOME YEARS. 384 00:16:49,541 --> 00:16:51,977 >> EXPLAIN TO US WHY THE TEAM 385 00:16:51,977 --> 00:16:53,879 HAS GATHERED HERE, EVEN THOUGH 386 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:56,415 YOU HAD TOLD ME THAT THE 387 00:16:56,415 --> 00:16:58,851 SPACECRAFT MET ITS FATE PROBABLY 388 00:16:58,851 --> 00:17:02,187 ABOUT 3:30 PACIFIC TIME OUT AT 389 00:17:02,187 --> 00:17:03,822 SATURN, BUT YET THE TEAM IS 390 00:17:03,822 --> 00:17:05,691 WAITING HERE NOW AND HOLDING 391 00:17:05,691 --> 00:17:05,991 VIGIL. 392 00:17:05,991 --> 00:17:07,659 WHY IS THAT? 393 00:17:07,659 --> 00:17:12,331 >> IT'S THAT PESKY ALBERT 394 00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:13,799 EINSTEIN AND HIS SPEED OF LIGHT 395 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:16,168 SPEED LIMIT. SO SATURN IS ABOUT 396 00:17:16,168 --> 00:17:19,805 AN HOUR AND 23 MINUTES AWAY FROM 397 00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:20,172 US. 398 00:17:20,172 --> 00:17:22,674 I'M A BIG SPORTS NUT. 399 00:17:22,674 --> 00:17:25,110 I TAKE GAMES AND DVR THEM. 400 00:17:25,110 --> 00:17:27,045 THE GAME IS SO EXCITING IF YOU 401 00:17:27,045 --> 00:17:29,014 DON'T KNOW THE RESULT, AND NO 402 00:17:29,014 --> 00:17:31,049 ONE HAS SEEN CASSINI'S LAST BITS 403 00:17:31,049 --> 00:17:33,419 OF SCIENCE COME BACK YET. 404 00:17:33,419 --> 00:17:35,220 IT'S JUST ABOUT TO CROSS THE 405 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:37,356 ORBIT OF JUPITER. 406 00:17:37,356 --> 00:17:40,592 THERE'S OUR GRAPHIC. 407 00:17:40,592 --> 00:17:43,929 JUPITER'S A DIFFERENT POSITION. 408 00:17:43,929 --> 00:17:45,531 THEY'LL KNOW CASSINI'S FATE AND 409 00:17:45,531 --> 00:17:47,166 LAST BIT OF DATA BEFORE WE WILL 410 00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:47,833 ON EARTH. 411 00:17:47,833 --> 00:17:52,538 SO WE'RE HOLDING VIGIL HERE. 412 00:17:52,538 --> 00:17:53,372 WE ALSO HAVE THIS DISPLAY, KIND 413 00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:55,974 OF LIKE GAUGES IN YOUR CAR. 414 00:17:55,974 --> 00:17:58,544 THIS IS THE SPEED NOTICE 63,000 415 00:17:58,544 --> 00:18:01,680 MILES PER HOUR AND CLIMBING AS 416 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,183 WE DESCEND INTO SATURN'S GRAVITY 417 00:18:04,183 --> 00:18:04,483 WELL. 418 00:18:04,483 --> 00:18:06,318 AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS THE 419 00:18:06,318 --> 00:18:07,986 DISTANCE FROM THE CLOUD TOPS, 420 00:18:07,986 --> 00:18:10,889 AND THAT'S SHRINKING. 421 00:18:10,889 --> 00:18:12,758 IT'S GOING TO HEAD DOWN OVER THE 422 00:18:12,758 --> 00:18:15,861 NEXT 37 MINUTES AS WE HEAD DOWN. 423 00:18:15,861 --> 00:18:17,563 >> AND TODD, HELP US UNDERSTAND 424 00:18:17,563 --> 00:18:19,531 HOW THEND TEAM WILL BE MONITORING 425 00:18:19,531 --> 00:18:19,832 THIS. 426 00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:22,267 >> YES, WE'VE GOT A FEW WAYS. 427 00:18:22,267 --> 00:18:24,503 THERE'S A DISPLAY FROM -- HERE'S 428 00:18:24,503 --> 00:18:26,572 OUR RADIO SIGNAL. 429 00:18:26,572 --> 00:18:28,574 SO THIS IS THE CARRIER 430 00:18:28,574 --> 00:18:31,543 FREQUENCY. AND WHAT I LIKE TO 431 00:18:31,543 --> 00:18:34,913 POINT OUT HERE, THE PEAK IN THE 432 00:18:34,913 --> 00:18:37,082 MIDDLE, THIS IS THE LOUDNESS OR 433 00:18:37,082 --> 00:18:38,584 THE SIGNAL STRENGTH. 434 00:18:38,584 --> 00:18:40,319 AND THE CASSINI FREQUENCY THAT 435 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:41,687 IT'S TALKING. 436 00:18:41,687 --> 00:18:43,822 WE HAVE X BAND AND S BAND, TWO 437 00:18:43,822 --> 00:18:45,691 DIFFERENT RADIO FREQUENCIES. IF 438 00:18:45,691 --> 00:18:47,726 YOU THINK IN YOUR CAR RADIO OF 439 00:18:47,726 --> 00:18:49,394 TUNING TO DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES, 440 00:18:49,394 --> 00:18:52,564 THAT'S LIKE MOVING ALONG THE X 441 00:18:52,564 --> 00:18:54,266 AXIS, THE HORIZONTAL AXIS. 442 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:56,802 WE'RE GETTING A NICE, BIG, 443 00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:58,837 STRONG, BOOMING SIGNAL FROM THE 444 00:18:58,837 --> 00:19:01,940 X AXIS. AS WE COME INTO THE 445 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:03,775 ATMOSPHERE AND TURN AWAY FROM 446 00:19:03,775 --> 00:19:05,744 EARTH, OUR THRUSTERS CAN'T KEEP 447 00:19:05,744 --> 00:19:08,514 UP ANYMORE WITH THE TORQUE. 448 00:19:08,514 --> 00:19:10,148 THOSE WILL FLAT LINE AND THAT'S 449 00:19:10,148 --> 00:19:11,316 WHEN WE'LL SAY GOOD-BYE. 450 00:19:11,316 --> 00:19:13,085 THE KEY IS TO KEEP THE DATA 451 00:19:13,085 --> 00:19:15,053 COMING DOWN TO EARTH AND GET THE 452 00:19:15,053 --> 00:19:16,822 PRECIOUS LAST FEW BITS OF 453 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:19,758 SCIENCE DATA FROM SATURN, OUR 454 00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:22,861 FIRST SNIP OF THE UPPER SATURN 455 00:19:22,861 --> 00:19:24,363 ATMOSPHERE, AND BOY WE'RE 456 00:19:24,363 --> 00:19:25,197 EXCITED FOR THAT. 457 00:19:25,197 --> 00:19:25,831 >> ALL RIGHT. 458 00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:26,398 THANKS TODD. 459 00:19:26,398 --> 00:19:28,000 WE WILL CHECK BACK WITH YOU 460 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:28,333 LATER. 461 00:19:28,333 --> 00:19:30,502 AND ONE OF THE SIGNALS TODD 462 00:19:30,502 --> 00:19:33,839 SHOWED YOU IS PART OF A COMPUTER 463 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:35,674 VISUALIZATION TOOL THAT WE CALL 464 00:19:35,674 --> 00:19:38,710 EYES ON THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE 465 00:19:38,710 --> 00:19:40,245 JPL COMPUTER SIMULATION SOFTWARE 466 00:19:40,245 --> 00:19:42,447 ISOF BASED ON REAL DATA FROM 467 00:19:42,447 --> 00:19:43,582 MISSIONS, AND IT'S SOMETHING 468 00:19:43,582 --> 00:19:45,217 THAT YOUET CAN DOWNLOAD ON YOUR 469 00:19:45,217 --> 00:19:46,985 OWN COMPUTER AND FOLLOW ALONG 470 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:48,654 THIS MORNING. 471 00:19:48,654 --> 00:19:52,891 GO TO EYES.NASA.GOV, DOWNLOAD 472 00:19:52,891 --> 00:19:56,695 THE APP, AND CLICK ON CASSINI'S 473 00:19:56,695 --> 00:19:57,095 TOUR. 474 00:19:57,095 --> 00:19:59,331 HERE ARE TWO FAMILY PHOTOS WE'D 475 00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:01,767 LIKE TO SHARE. THE TOP ONE WAS 476 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:04,336 TAKEN JUNE 21, 2017. 477 00:20:04,336 --> 00:20:06,738 IT'S THE TEAM AND ALUMNI, AND 478 00:20:06,738 --> 00:20:08,040 THEY, FILLED THE STAIRCASE ON THE 479 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:08,607 MALL HERE. 480 00:20:08,607 --> 00:20:10,709 MOST OF THEM ARE ENGINEERS. ON 481 00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:12,678 THE BOTTOM PHOTO, AND THIS ONE 482 00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:15,847 WAS TAKEN JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, 483 00:20:15,847 --> 00:20:18,517 IT'S THE SCIENCE TEAM AT CAL 484 00:20:18,517 --> 00:20:18,817 TECH. 485 00:20:18,817 --> 00:20:20,252 THE TEAM INCLUDES SCIENTISTS 486 00:20:20,252 --> 00:20:21,420 FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 487 00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:22,854 OVER THE YEARS, THOUSANDS OF 488 00:20:22,854 --> 00:20:26,992 PEOPLE HAVE WORKED ON THIS 489 00:20:26,992 --> 00:20:27,326 MISSION. 490 00:20:27,326 --> 00:20:28,126 THERE ARE SO MANY MEMBERS OF THE 491 00:20:28,126 --> 00:20:29,795 CASSINI FAMILY, WE COULDN'T FIT 492 00:20:29,795 --> 00:20:32,731 THEM ALL HERE AT JPL. 493 00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:36,001 THAT'S WHY THERE'S A BIG CROWD 494 00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:38,704 IN PASADENA, WHERE CASSINI 495 00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:40,539 SCIENCE TEAM MEMBER, MORGAN 496 00:20:40,539 --> 00:20:43,175 CABLE, IS RIGHT NOW. 497 00:20:43,175 --> 00:20:45,010 WHAT IS IT LIKE OUT THERE? 498 00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:47,846 >> Reporter: HI, HERE AT CAL 499 00:20:47,846 --> 00:20:49,982 TECH, YOU CAN HEAR IT BEHIND ME 500 00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:50,382 RIGHT? 501 00:20:50,382 --> 00:20:51,984 THIS IS AN HISTORIC MOMENT. 502 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:54,620 AND I THINK THE MOOD REFLECTS 503 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:54,920 THAT. 504 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,456 BUT IT'S ALSO LIKE A FAMILY 505 00:20:57,456 --> 00:20:57,990 REUNION. 506 00:20:57,990 --> 00:21:00,726 WE'RE HERE WITH OUR OTHER FELLOW 507 00:21:00,726 --> 00:21:02,461 CASSINI FAMILY MEMBERS. 508 00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:03,862 WE'RE SEEING PEOPLE WE HAVEN'T 509 00:21:03,862 --> 00:21:05,797 SEEN FOR A LONG TIME FOR SOME 510 00:21:05,797 --> 00:21:06,498 CASES. 511 00:21:06,498 --> 00:21:07,599 IT'S JUST BEEN WONDERFUL TO 512 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:09,501 SHARE THESE MEMORIES, TO REVEL 513 00:21:09,501 --> 00:21:12,604 IN THEEVE EXCITEMENT. 514 00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:13,305 THIS IS A CELEBRATION OF AN 515 00:21:13,305 --> 00:21:15,374 AMAZING MISSION AND AN 516 00:21:15,374 --> 00:21:15,974 INCREDIBLE LEGACY. 517 00:21:15,974 --> 00:21:20,379 >> MORGAN, YOU'RE ONE OF THE 518 00:21:20,379 --> 00:21:21,179 SCIENTISTS -- YOU'RE ONE OF THE 519 00:21:21,179 --> 00:21:22,681 SCIENTISTS OUT THERE. 520 00:21:22,681 --> 00:21:24,750 FOR YOU, YOU'RE PROBABLY BEING 521 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:25,651 VERY REFLECTIVE. 522 00:21:25,651 --> 00:21:29,121 WHAT WAS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS 523 00:21:29,121 --> 00:21:30,555 FOR YOU THIS MISSION? 524 00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:34,593 >> FOR ME PERSONALLY, THE 525 00:21:34,593 --> 00:21:36,361 DISCOVERIES HAVE REALLY 526 00:21:36,361 --> 00:21:39,698 REVOLUTIONIZED OUR VIEW OF WHERE 527 00:21:39,698 --> 00:21:40,666 WE MIGHT FIND LIFE, OR AT LEAST 528 00:21:40,666 --> 00:21:42,601 CONDITIONS SUITABLE FOR LIFE IN 529 00:21:42,601 --> 00:21:44,803 NOT ONLY OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, BUT 530 00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:45,804 THE UNIVERSE. 531 00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:47,472 WE'VE LEARNED THERE ARE PLACES 532 00:21:47,472 --> 00:21:49,875 WHERE LIQUID WATER AND THE OTHER 533 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:52,878 INGREDIENTS FOR LIFE AS WE KNOW 534 00:21:52,878 --> 00:21:55,847 IT DO EXIST. 535 00:21:55,847 --> 00:21:57,883 THAT'S THANKS TO THE CASSINI 536 00:21:57,883 --> 00:22:04,690 MISSION, WHICH THROUGH THROUGH 537 00:22:04,690 --> 00:22:05,991 THE PLUME OF INSELIDIS. 538 00:22:05,991 --> 00:22:08,627 NOW WE CAN START TO LOOK FOR 539 00:22:08,627 --> 00:22:14,666 PLACES LIKE INSELIDIS OR UROTHA 540 00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,935 AND EXTEND OUR SEARCH TO TRY TO 541 00:22:16,935 --> 00:22:19,137 FIND THAT AMAZING DISCOVERY OF 542 00:22:19,137 --> 00:22:19,905 LIFE SOMEWHERE ELSE. 543 00:22:19,905 --> 00:22:21,673 >> WE WILL BE CHECKING BACK WITH 544 00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:23,842 YOU, MORGAN, LATER ON IN THE 545 00:22:23,842 --> 00:22:24,142 SHOW. 546 00:22:24,142 --> 00:22:25,577 THANKS FOR THAT REPORT. 547 00:22:25,577 --> 00:22:28,714 IT ISR ABOUT 23 MINUTES PAST THE 548 00:22:28,714 --> 00:22:29,247 HOUR. 549 00:22:29,247 --> 00:22:31,283 YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE COVERAGE, 550 00:22:31,283 --> 00:22:34,653 MARKING THE FINAL MOMENTS OF 551 00:22:34,653 --> 00:22:36,221 NASA TV, THE DEEP SPACE NETWORK 552 00:22:36,221 --> 00:22:39,057 IS AWAITING THE LOSS OF SIGNAL. 553 00:22:39,057 --> 00:22:42,394 AND LET'S GO TO CASSINI'S FINAL 554 00:22:42,394 --> 00:22:43,295 HOUR DISPLAY. 555 00:22:43,295 --> 00:22:45,731 ATLA THIS POINT THE SPACECRAFT HAS 556 00:22:45,731 --> 00:22:49,267 SENT US DATA FROM ABOUT THE 50 557 00:22:49,267 --> 00:22:51,970 DEGREE NORTH LATITUDE MARK AND 558 00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:54,773 LOSS OF SIGNAL SHOULD BE COMING 559 00:22:54,773 --> 00:23:13,291 ABOUT 32 MINUTES FROM NOW. 560 00:23:58,837 --> 00:23:13,625 ♪♪ 561 00:23:58,837 --> 00:24:02,374 >> BEAUTIFUL IMAGES FROM 562 00:24:02,374 --> 00:24:03,508 CASSINI. 563 00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:05,510 THE MISSION MADE SO MANY 564 00:24:05,510 --> 00:24:09,314 HISTORIC DISCOVERIES. 565 00:24:09,314 --> 00:24:10,081 THE PROBE SENT BACK DETAILS OF 566 00:24:10,081 --> 00:24:12,050 AN ALIEN WORLD, A WORLD THAT 567 00:24:12,050 --> 00:24:14,786 APPEARS TO BE VERY SIMILAR TO 568 00:24:14,786 --> 00:24:15,120 EARTH. 569 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,923 IT FOUND JET SPRANG WATER ICE 570 00:24:17,923 --> 00:24:20,425 AND ORGANICS ON THE SOUTH POLES 571 00:24:20,425 --> 00:24:23,595 OF ENCELADUS, AN OCEAN WHERE 572 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:24,863 THERE COULD BE LIFE. 573 00:24:24,863 --> 00:24:27,933 THE MISSION REVEALED SCIENTIFIC 574 00:24:27,933 --> 00:24:30,068 WONDERS ABOUT SATURN, ITS RINGS 575 00:24:30,068 --> 00:24:32,504 AND MOONS, AND IT HASN'T 576 00:24:32,504 --> 00:24:32,838 STOPPED. 577 00:24:32,838 --> 00:24:33,905 AT LEAST NOT YET. 578 00:24:33,905 --> 00:24:38,076 WITH ME NOW IS CASSINI PROJECT 579 00:24:38,076 --> 00:24:38,710 SCIENTIST, LINDA SPOKER. 580 00:24:38,710 --> 00:24:40,245 THIS MISSION WAS DETERMINED TO 581 00:24:40,245 --> 00:24:41,646 SEND DOWN SCIENCE RIGHT DOWN TO 582 00:24:41,646 --> 00:24:42,314 THE VERY END. 583 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:45,217 >> THAT'S RIGHT, TO THE VERY 584 00:24:45,217 --> 00:24:47,619 LAST SECOND. 585 00:24:47,619 --> 00:24:49,421 WE WERE TOLD A LITTLE WHILE AGO, 586 00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:51,790 THAT OVERNIGHT THE SPACECRAFT 587 00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:55,026 SENT BACK THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 588 00:24:55,026 --> 00:24:55,660 IT'S BEEN CALLED. 589 00:24:55,660 --> 00:24:57,095 CAN YOU DESCRIBEE WHAT THOSE ARE? 590 00:24:57,095 --> 00:24:59,464 >> LET'S GO TO THE VERY FIRST 591 00:24:59,464 --> 00:25:00,899 IMAGE, IMAGE A, PROBABLY THE 592 00:25:00,899 --> 00:25:02,434 LAST PICTURE SHOWN. 593 00:25:02,434 --> 00:25:05,303 THE FIRST THING WE DID WAS MAKE 594 00:25:05,303 --> 00:25:07,305 A COLOR MOSAIC, AND THESE ARE A 595 00:25:07,305 --> 00:25:10,709 COUPLE OF PICTURES FROM THAT 596 00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:11,176 MOSAIC. 597 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:12,510 WE'LL STITCH THOSE TOGETHER AND 598 00:25:12,510 --> 00:25:14,412 HAVE A BEAUTIFUL IMAGE OF SATURN 599 00:25:14,412 --> 00:25:17,048 PLUS THE RINGS. IF WE GO TO 600 00:25:17,048 --> 00:25:21,887 IMAGE C, THAT'S A MOVIE OF 601 00:25:21,887 --> 00:25:23,688 ENCELADUS SETTING BEHIND THE 602 00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:24,756 RING OF SATURN. 603 00:25:24,756 --> 00:25:25,924 >> TELL ME HOW THE TEAM DECIDED 604 00:25:25,924 --> 00:25:28,159 TO COME UP WITH THIS IMAGERY AND 605 00:25:28,159 --> 00:25:29,060 THIS SELECTION? 606 00:25:29,060 --> 00:25:30,662 >> THERE'S A LOT OF SCIENCE IN 607 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:33,865 THESE IMAGES. 608 00:25:33,865 --> 00:25:36,568 THERE'S WHENCE ENCELADUS SETTING 609 00:25:36,568 --> 00:25:40,005 BEHIND THE RING OF SATURN. 610 00:25:40,005 --> 00:25:41,973 GOOD-BYE TO ENCELADUS, AND WE 611 00:25:41,973 --> 00:25:44,376 WANTED TO DO A SURVEY AND LOOK 612 00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:47,212 AT EACH OF THESE KEY TARGETS AND 613 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:50,582 COLLECT POSTCARDSEY FOR OUR 614 00:25:50,582 --> 00:25:50,949 SCRAPBOOK. 615 00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:53,385 IF YOU LOOK AT IMAGE D, THAT'S A 616 00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:55,887 TRUE COLOR IMAGE OF TITAN, AND 617 00:25:55,887 --> 00:25:58,023 YOU CAN SEE THE LIGHTS UP IN THE 618 00:25:58,023 --> 00:25:58,556 NORTH. 619 00:25:58,556 --> 00:26:01,927 IMAGE F SHOWS THIS IN A FALSE 620 00:26:01,927 --> 00:26:04,362 COLOR, THERE'S A UV FILTER, AND 621 00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:07,332 THE LIGHTS REALLY POP OUT. AND 622 00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:09,668 YOU CAN SEE THAT BLUISH HAZE AT 623 00:26:09,668 --> 00:26:12,070 THE EDGE OF TITAN. 624 00:26:12,070 --> 00:26:14,506 TITAN HAS A THICK NITROGEN 625 00:26:14,506 --> 00:26:14,906 ATMOSPHERE. 626 00:26:14,906 --> 00:26:16,808 WE TOOK PICTURES OF THE RINGS, 627 00:26:16,808 --> 00:26:18,944 IF YOU GO TO IMAGE G, WE'RE 628 00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:20,679 LOOKING FOR PROPELLERS. 629 00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:23,348 YOU CAN JUST SEE A HINT OF IT 630 00:26:23,348 --> 00:26:24,349 ABOVE THAT DARK GAP. 631 00:26:24,349 --> 00:26:26,818 IF WE GO TO IMAGE H, THAT'S A 632 00:26:26,818 --> 00:26:27,485 BLOW UP. 633 00:26:27,485 --> 00:26:30,055 SEE THAT TWO-ARM PROPELLER? 634 00:26:30,055 --> 00:26:33,325 IT'S THE WHITE FEATURE ABOVE THE 635 00:26:33,325 --> 00:26:33,692 DARK GAP. 636 00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:34,426 THERE'S A COLLECTION OF RING 637 00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:36,461 PARTICLES THATRK ARE LARGE ENOUGH, 638 00:26:36,461 --> 00:26:37,829 TRYING TO OPEN THEIR OWN GAP. 639 00:26:37,829 --> 00:26:39,464 AND THEY CREATE WHAT LOOKS LIKE 640 00:26:39,464 --> 00:26:41,032 AN AIRPLANE PROPELLER. 641 00:26:41,032 --> 00:26:51,309 AND THEY HAVE FUN NAMES OF 642 00:26:51,309 --> 00:26:51,676 AVIATORS. 643 00:26:51,676 --> 00:26:54,913 YOU CAN SEE THE CRINKLY EDGES 644 00:26:54,913 --> 00:26:56,648 ALONG THE GAP? 645 00:26:56,648 --> 00:27:01,586 THAT'S CREATED BY GAS IN THE 646 00:27:01,586 --> 00:27:10,862 SYSTEM. 647 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:13,498 AND FINALLY IMAGE J THIS IS AN 648 00:27:13,498 --> 00:27:16,935 IMAGE LOOKING AT SATURN IN A 649 00:27:16,935 --> 00:27:21,306 PLACE WHERE CASSINI WILL BE 650 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:22,240 ENTERING, ONE OF OUR LAST 651 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,175 PICTURES OF SATURN. 652 00:27:24,175 --> 00:27:26,678 YOU CAN THINK OF CASSINI RUNNING 653 00:27:26,678 --> 00:27:27,412 A MARATHON. 654 00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:29,547 FOR 13 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN 655 00:27:29,547 --> 00:27:30,615 RUNNING A MARATHON FOR 656 00:27:30,615 --> 00:27:32,050 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, AND WE'RE 657 00:27:32,050 --> 00:27:33,585 ON THE LAST LAP. 658 00:27:33,585 --> 00:27:35,920 SO WE'RE HERE TODAY TO CHEER AS 659 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,655 CASSINI FINISHES THAT RACE. 660 00:27:37,655 --> 00:27:40,625 >> NOW, MANY OF THESE IMAGES AND 661 00:27:40,625 --> 00:27:41,926 WHAT THE SPACECRAFT WILL BE 662 00:27:41,926 --> 00:27:44,996 DOING RIGHT NOW, ALL OF THIS IS 663 00:27:44,996 --> 00:27:46,264 UNKNOWN TERRITORY. 664 00:27:46,264 --> 00:27:49,434 THEIT SPACECRAFT HAS NEVER BEEN 665 00:27:49,434 --> 00:27:49,868 HERE BEFORE. 666 00:27:49,868 --> 00:27:51,803 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 667 00:27:51,803 --> 00:27:54,039 WE'RE FLYING INTO SATURN MORE 668 00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:57,042 DEEPLY THAN WE HAVE EVER FLOWN 669 00:27:57,042 --> 00:27:57,375 BEFORE. 670 00:27:57,375 --> 00:27:59,944 THE KEY INSTRUMENT IS THE 671 00:27:59,944 --> 00:28:01,446 NEUTRAL MASS SPECTROMETER. 672 00:28:01,446 --> 00:28:06,117 IT IS ORIENTED TO SAMPLE THE 673 00:28:06,117 --> 00:28:13,291 ATMOSPHERE'S LEVEL. 674 00:28:13,291 --> 00:28:15,827 IT WILL SEND BACK THE LAST VERY 675 00:28:15,827 --> 00:28:17,362 VALUABLE PACKETS OF DATA. 676 00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:24,035 >> AND WHO KNOWS HOW MANY PHD 677 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:26,971 THESIS MIGHT BE IN THIS DATA. 678 00:28:26,971 --> 00:28:30,008 >> WE WILL HAVE SCIENTISTS AND 679 00:28:30,008 --> 00:28:31,810 STUDENTS LOOKING OVER THIS DATA 680 00:28:31,810 --> 00:28:33,344 FOR YEARS TO COME. 681 00:28:33,344 --> 00:28:35,213 >> WE WILL HOPE TO UNDERSTAND 682 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,149 HOW SATURN FORMED, EVOLVED, AND 683 00:28:38,149 --> 00:28:41,286 WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE WE'LL SEE. 684 00:28:41,286 --> 00:28:43,254 >> WHAT GREAT SCIENCE IS STILL 685 00:28:43,254 --> 00:28:43,688 AHEAD. 686 00:28:43,688 --> 00:28:45,190 LINDA, THANKS FOR JOINING US. 687 00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:47,892 >> YEAH, GLAD TO BE HERE. 688 00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:50,095 >> YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE COVERAGE 689 00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:54,933 OF CASSINI'S FINAL HOUR. 690 00:28:54,933 --> 00:28:57,669 JPL IS MANAGED BY THE CALIFORNIA 691 00:28:57,669 --> 00:28:59,504 INSTITUTE OFOR TECHNOLOGY. 692 00:28:59,504 --> 00:29:01,706 LET'S CHECK OUT OUR DISPLAY. 693 00:29:01,706 --> 00:29:04,542 WE ARE NOW ABOUT JUST A LITTLE 694 00:29:04,542 --> 00:29:08,546 UNDER 26 MINUTES FROM THE END OF 695 00:29:12,617 --> 00:29:12,283 MISSION. 696 00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:12,951 ♪♪ 697 00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:43,248 >> HERE IS ONE EXAMPLE OF A TEAM 698 00:29:43,248 --> 00:29:44,682 THAT LEARNS TOGETHER PLAYS 699 00:29:44,682 --> 00:29:45,049 TOGETHER. 700 00:29:45,049 --> 00:29:48,253 THE SINGERS HAVE A KNACK FOR 701 00:29:48,253 --> 00:29:51,022 PUTTING A CASSINI SPIN ON JUST 702 00:29:51,022 --> 00:29:53,191 ABOUT ANY SHOW TUNE. 703 00:29:53,191 --> 00:29:56,094 AND I SAW TODD BARBER IN THAT 704 00:29:56,094 --> 00:29:56,694 GROUP. 705 00:29:56,694 --> 00:29:58,796 IT IS A VERY CLOSE KNIT GROUP, 706 00:29:58,796 --> 00:30:01,866 AND A MULTIGENERATIONAL GROUP. 707 00:30:01,866 --> 00:30:03,201 SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPENT THEIR 708 00:30:03,201 --> 00:30:04,702 ENTIRE CAREERS ON THIS MISSION, 709 00:30:04,702 --> 00:30:06,571 AND OTHERS ARE JUST STARTING 710 00:30:06,571 --> 00:30:09,674 THEIR CAREERS ON CASSINI. 711 00:30:09,674 --> 00:30:11,342 TODDSI BARBER IS STANDING BY WITH 712 00:30:11,342 --> 00:30:13,311 ONE OF THE YOUNGER MEMBERS OF 713 00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:16,714 THE TEAM, GUIDANCE AND CONTROL 714 00:30:16,714 --> 00:30:17,515 ENGINEER WHO STARTED HER CAREER 715 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:32,330 WITH CASSINI, RIGHT? 716 00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:33,898 >> CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO OUR 717 00:30:33,898 --> 00:30:34,265 VIEWERS? 718 00:30:34,265 --> 00:30:34,432 >> 719 00:30:34,432 --> 00:30:36,034 ABSOLUTELY. 720 00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:37,735 I AND MY TEAM ARE IN CHARGE OF 721 00:30:37,735 --> 00:30:38,636 THE ORIENTATION. 722 00:30:38,636 --> 00:30:40,471 WE POINT ALL OF THE CAMERAS AND 723 00:30:40,471 --> 00:30:41,272 THE ANTENNA. 724 00:30:41,272 --> 00:30:42,340 >> THAT'S GREAT. 725 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:44,375 AND YOU HAVE A PARTICULARLY 726 00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:45,777 IMPORTANT ROLE THIS EVENING 727 00:30:45,777 --> 00:30:46,211 RIGHT? 728 00:30:46,211 --> 00:30:49,447 OR THIS MORNING, I GUESS I 729 00:30:49,447 --> 00:30:49,981 SHOULD SAY? 730 00:30:49,981 --> 00:30:52,984 >> ISA HAVE ALLUDED TO WE WANT TO 731 00:30:52,984 --> 00:30:54,152 GET EVERY LAST POSSIBLE SECOND 732 00:30:54,152 --> 00:30:56,754 OF INFORMATION, WHICH MEANS OUR 733 00:30:56,754 --> 00:30:58,723 ANTENNA NEEDS TO BE POINTED 734 00:30:58,723 --> 00:31:01,793 TOWARDS EARTH AS LONG AS WE 735 00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:06,231 POSSIBLY CAN. 736 00:31:06,231 --> 00:31:07,765 >> HOW DO YOU DO THAT? 737 00:31:07,765 --> 00:31:12,370 >> WE HAVE LITTLE ENGINES OR 738 00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:18,710 THRUSTERS. 739 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:22,714 >> WE WILL LOSE THE BATTLE WITH 740 00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:23,681 SATURN'S ATMOSPHERE. 741 00:31:23,681 --> 00:31:25,316 >> WE TRY AND HOLD THAT ANTENNA 742 00:31:25,316 --> 00:31:27,051 FOR ASE LONG AS WE CAN. 743 00:31:27,051 --> 00:31:30,321 THAT WILL LAST FOR ONLY ABOUT A 744 00:31:30,321 --> 00:31:30,755 MINUTE. 745 00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:32,156 >> WOW. 746 00:31:32,156 --> 00:31:34,859 THAT'S -- AMAZING. 747 00:31:34,859 --> 00:31:37,562 THOSE PRECIOUS SECONDS OF 748 00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:40,031 SCIENCE DATA ARE WORTH EVERY 749 00:31:40,031 --> 00:31:41,432 PULSE WE PUT UP THERE. 750 00:31:41,432 --> 00:31:43,768 >> EVERY SECOND. 751 00:31:43,768 --> 00:31:45,003 WE'RE LEARNING ALL ABOUT 752 00:31:45,003 --> 00:31:46,971 SATURN'S ATMOSPHERE WITH ALL THE 753 00:31:46,971 --> 00:31:47,772 INSTRUMENTS WE CAN. 754 00:31:47,772 --> 00:31:49,974 WE WANT TO POINT AS LONG AS WE 755 00:31:49,974 --> 00:31:50,275 CAN. 756 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:51,609 >> YOU STARTED YOUR CAREER HERE. 757 00:31:51,609 --> 00:31:53,278 HOW ARE YOU FEELING TONIGHT 758 00:31:53,278 --> 00:31:55,179 KNOWING WE HAVE TO SAY GOOD-BYE 759 00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:56,447 TO OUR BEAUTIFUL SPACECRAFT? 760 00:31:56,447 --> 00:31:59,317 >> I STARTED MY CAREER, I WAS IN 761 00:31:59,317 --> 00:32:01,119 HIGH SCHOOL WHEN CASSINI ARRIVED 762 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:01,719 AT SATURN. 763 00:32:01,719 --> 00:32:03,488 SO YOU .KNOW, IT'S REALLY 764 00:32:03,488 --> 00:32:05,490 EXCITING AND I'M PROUD TO HAVE 765 00:32:05,490 --> 00:32:07,225 WORKED ON SUCH AN INCREDIBLE 766 00:32:07,225 --> 00:32:08,593 MISSION AND BE PART OF SUCH A 767 00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:11,329 WONDERFUL FAMILY. 768 00:32:11,329 --> 00:32:12,063 I'M USED TO CHECKING HOW THE 769 00:32:12,063 --> 00:32:13,698 SPACECRAFTK IS FEELING EVERY 770 00:32:13,698 --> 00:32:15,733 MORNING, SO LIT BE A LITTLE SAD 771 00:32:15,733 --> 00:32:26,778 TO NOT HAVE THAT ANYMORE. 772 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:30,048 >> WE GOT A FEW TRUCKS UP THEIR 773 00:32:30,048 --> 00:32:30,381 SLEEVES. 774 00:32:30,381 --> 00:32:32,750 IF WE CAN HEAD BACK TO THE RADIO 775 00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:35,787 SCIENCE DISPLAY AND CHECK AND 776 00:32:35,787 --> 00:32:56,441 SEE -- 777 00:32:56,441 --> 00:32:57,975 >> SO SO FAR SO GOOD. 778 00:32:57,975 --> 00:32:58,910 BACK TO YOU. 779 00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:01,846 >> THANKS, TODD, THANKS, JOANIE. 780 00:33:01,846 --> 00:33:04,415 IT IS ABOUT 33 MINUTES PAST THE 781 00:33:04,415 --> 00:33:06,417 HOUR, AND THE ESTIMATED TIME OF 782 00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:10,988 LOSS OF SIGNAL IS 4:55 A.M. 783 00:33:10,988 --> 00:33:27,071 PACIFIC. 784 00:33:27,071 --> 00:34:12,750 ♪♪ 785 00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:15,353 >> THE CASSINI MISSION HAS BEEN 786 00:34:15,353 --> 00:34:17,855 AN EPIC ADVENTURE AROUND THE 787 00:34:17,855 --> 00:34:18,656 SATURN SYSTEM. 788 00:34:18,656 --> 00:34:20,591 IT HAS SENT HOME MOUNTAINS OF 789 00:34:20,591 --> 00:34:24,128 SCIENCE DATA AND STUNNING 790 00:34:24,128 --> 00:34:26,764 IMAGES. THE SPACECRAFT 791 00:34:26,764 --> 00:34:33,638 PERFORMED BEAUTIFULLY. 792 00:34:33,638 --> 00:34:35,273 MEMBERS OF THE MISSION SAY THEY 793 00:34:35,273 --> 00:34:35,973 COULDN'T HAVE ASKED 794 00:34:58,162 --> 00:34:36,307 ♪♪ 795 00:34:58,162 --> 00:35:00,898 >> I'VE WORKED ON THE CASSINI 796 00:35:00,898 --> 00:35:03,668 PROJECT FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS, AND 797 00:35:03,668 --> 00:35:05,670 THAT'S AN ENTIRE SATURN ORBIT. 798 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:08,606 >> THE BEAUTY IS THE DESIGN. 799 00:35:08,606 --> 00:35:12,009 IT'S THE LARGEST EVER BUILT, 12 800 00:35:12,009 --> 00:35:13,578 DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS. THE 801 00:35:13,578 --> 00:35:15,546 PROBE FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE 802 00:35:15,546 --> 00:35:19,684 AGENCY, IT'S JUST A MONUMENTAL 803 00:35:19,684 --> 00:35:22,453 MACHINE. 804 00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:26,924 >> THREE, TWO, ONE, AND 805 00:35:26,924 --> 00:36:01,092 LIFT-OFF! 806 00:36:01,092 --> 00:36:03,394 >> I REMEMBER COMING BACK TO JPL 807 00:36:03,394 --> 00:36:04,896 EARLY IN THE MORNING SO I COULD 808 00:36:04,896 --> 00:36:07,231 BE THERE ANLDD WATCH THE PICTURES, 809 00:36:07,231 --> 00:36:09,300 ONE BY ONE, COME DOWN. 810 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:10,768 I FELT LIKE I COULD ALMOST REACH 811 00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:14,238 OUT AND TOUCH THE RINGS THAT 812 00:36:14,238 --> 00:36:22,313 WERE RIGHT THERE. 813 00:36:22,313 --> 00:36:24,849 >> WE'VE BEEN COLLABORATING 814 00:36:24,849 --> 00:36:28,085 SINCEIN LAUNCH TO BE SURE WE HAD 815 00:36:28,085 --> 00:36:28,953 EVERYTHING RIGHT. 816 00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:31,055 >> THE PROBE WAS DROPPED ON TO 817 00:36:31,055 --> 00:36:31,389 TITAN. 818 00:36:31,389 --> 00:36:34,325 THESE ARE IMAGES FROM A BILLION 819 00:36:34,325 --> 00:36:38,529 MILES AWAY ON THE SURFACE OF 820 00:36:38,529 --> 00:36:59,917 TITAN. 821 00:36:59,917 --> 00:37:05,389 >> WE REMAPPED TO CONCENTRATE ON 822 00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:06,791 THE QUESTIONS THAT CASSINI 823 00:37:06,791 --> 00:37:07,124 RAISED. 824 00:37:07,124 --> 00:37:11,262 >> THE PLUME OF ENCELADUS, 825 00:37:11,262 --> 00:37:13,097 TESTING THE GAS AND MEASURING 826 00:37:13,097 --> 00:37:14,465 PARTICLES IN A WAY THAT WE 827 00:37:14,465 --> 00:37:17,401 HADN'T PLANNED. 828 00:37:17,401 --> 00:37:19,470 CASSINI HAS CHANGED THE PARADIGM 829 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:21,205 IN WHERE WE LOOK FOR LIFE. 830 00:37:21,205 --> 00:37:24,108 >> 13 YEARS OF EXPLORING SATURN. 831 00:37:24,108 --> 00:37:27,878 IT REALLY IS JUST A SMOOTH 832 00:37:27,878 --> 00:37:44,161 OPERATION. 833 00:37:44,161 --> 00:37:46,497 >> JOINING ME NOW IS JIM GREEN. 834 00:37:46,497 --> 00:37:49,133 SOME OF CASSINI'S GREATEST 835 00:37:49,133 --> 00:37:50,167 ACCOMPLISHMENTS CAME AS BIG 836 00:37:50,167 --> 00:37:50,868 SURPRISES, DIDN'T THEY? 837 00:37:50,868 --> 00:37:54,238 >> THEY DID. 838 00:37:54,238 --> 00:38:30,941 ABSOLUTELY. 839 00:38:30,941 --> 00:38:32,143 >> THAT GAVE A HINT THAT 840 00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:33,411 SOMETHING WAS GOING ON AND IT 841 00:38:33,411 --> 00:38:35,046 NEEDED TO BE LOOKED AT. 842 00:38:35,046 --> 00:38:36,480 THE NEXT PASS, THEY CAME UP WITH 843 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,384 THE IDEA, WELL, LET'S LOOK AT IT 844 00:38:40,384 --> 00:38:41,419 IN BACK LIGHT, AND WOW, THERE 845 00:38:41,419 --> 00:38:43,087 WERE THE PLUMES. AND THAT 846 00:38:43,087 --> 00:38:46,691 STARTED, THEN, A SERIES OF NEW 847 00:38:46,691 --> 00:38:49,794 ORBITS AND TRAJECTORIES TO GO 848 00:38:49,794 --> 00:38:52,096 THROUGH AND TASTE THE PLUMES AND 849 00:38:52,096 --> 00:38:55,533 GET MORE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT'S 850 00:38:55,533 --> 00:38:59,236 HAPPENING AT ENCELADUS. 851 00:38:59,236 --> 00:39:00,805 >> HOW DOES THIS CHANGE THE WAY 852 00:39:00,805 --> 00:39:02,440 WE LOOK FOR LIFE IN THIS SOLAR 853 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:02,773 SYSTEM? 854 00:39:02,773 --> 00:39:04,809 >> THIS IS REALLY A CALLING, IF 855 00:39:04,809 --> 00:39:08,345 YOU WILL, OF HEY, YOU'RE GOING 856 00:39:08,345 --> 00:39:10,214 TO HAVE TOO COME BACK. 857 00:39:10,214 --> 00:39:13,117 THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS WE KNOW 858 00:39:13,117 --> 00:39:13,517 ABOUT LIFE. 859 00:39:13,517 --> 00:39:17,388 ONE, IT METABOLIZES AND TAKES IN 860 00:39:17,388 --> 00:39:27,832 A LIQUID. 861 00:39:27,832 --> 00:39:29,767 AND LIKE I CAN'T MEASURE ANY OF 862 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:31,836 THOSE OTHER THAN GOING AFTER 863 00:39:31,836 --> 00:39:32,136 WATER. 864 00:39:32,136 --> 00:39:34,972 ONCE WE SEE AN AREA THAT HAS 865 00:39:34,972 --> 00:39:38,209 WATER, WE KNOW IT'S A 866 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:40,077 POSSIBILITY OF BEING A HABITABLE 867 00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:40,511 ENVIRONMENT. 868 00:39:40,511 --> 00:39:41,746 >> AND TRANSITIONING TO THE 869 00:39:41,746 --> 00:39:43,214 OTHER BIG STORIES IS ANOTHER 870 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:44,048 MOON, TITAN. 871 00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:45,549 >> OH YEAH, TITAN. 872 00:39:45,549 --> 00:39:46,984 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MOON THIS IS. 873 00:39:46,984 --> 00:39:49,920 YOU KNOW, IT'S BIGGER THAN THE 874 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:50,988 PLANET MERCURY. 875 00:39:50,988 --> 00:39:53,691 ONE.ATMOSPHERE IS A SIGNIFICANT 876 00:39:53,691 --> 00:39:55,259 IT'S TWICE THE PRESSURE WE HAVE 877 00:39:55,259 --> 00:39:56,060 HERE ON EARTH. 878 00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:57,328 IT'S SIMILAR IN THE SENSE THAT 879 00:39:57,328 --> 00:39:59,463 IT HAS A LOT OF NITROGEN, IN 880 00:39:59,463 --> 00:40:03,000 FACT IT'S DOMINATED BY NITROGEN. 881 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:09,306 BUT IT ALSO HAS LIQUID ON ITS 882 00:40:09,306 --> 00:40:13,911 SURFACE, WHICH WE KNOW NOW IS 883 00:40:13,911 --> 00:40:15,980 METHANE. 884 00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:19,383 >> INCREDIBLE SCIENCE LEGACY, 885 00:40:19,383 --> 00:40:21,919 BUT TITAN ALSO HELPED US WITH AN 886 00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:23,020 ENGINEERING LEGACY AS WELL. 887 00:40:23,020 --> 00:40:25,956 >> THE CONCEPT OF USING TITAN TO 888 00:40:25,956 --> 00:40:34,165 DO LUNAR -- TO DO GRAVITY 889 00:40:34,165 --> 00:40:34,932 ASSIST, SWING BYES THAT ENABLE 890 00:40:34,932 --> 00:40:35,733 IT TO GET INTO DIFFERENT ORBITS 891 00:40:35,733 --> 00:40:38,836 IS A FABULOUS CONCEPT. 892 00:40:38,836 --> 00:40:39,570 WHILE WE WERE DOING THAT, AND 893 00:40:39,570 --> 00:40:42,673 HERE'S THE KOOSH BALL, ALL OF 894 00:40:42,673 --> 00:40:45,209 THE FLY BYES ALLOW US TO LOOK AT 895 00:40:45,209 --> 00:40:46,544 TITAN IN DETAIL. 896 00:40:46,544 --> 00:40:48,512 FROM MULTIPLE FLY BYES, WE CAN 897 00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:50,347 GET A GLOBAL VIEW OF THAT MOON, 898 00:40:50,347 --> 00:40:53,684 AND WE'RE USING THAT SAME 899 00:40:53,684 --> 00:40:58,823 CONCEPT AT JUPITER WITH ANOTHER 900 00:40:58,823 --> 00:41:01,392 MOON CALLED EUROPA. 901 00:41:01,392 --> 00:41:03,794 >> BEFORE WE GO, I WANTED TO 902 00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:06,330 BRING UP THE E BOOK, ONE OF THE 903 00:41:06,330 --> 00:41:07,898 MOST FANTASTIC THINGS ABOUT THE 904 00:41:07,898 --> 00:41:09,333 MISSION HAS BEEN THE IMAGERY. 905 00:41:09,333 --> 00:41:11,602 CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT 906 00:41:11,602 --> 00:41:11,902 THAT? 907 00:41:11,902 --> 00:41:13,737 >> WE REALLY NEEDED TO MAKE SURE 908 00:41:13,737 --> 00:41:16,907 THAT WE HAD WONDERFULLY 909 00:41:16,907 --> 00:41:20,544 DESCRIBED AND BEAUTIFUL SET 910 00:41:20,544 --> 00:41:23,180 IMAGES THAT WERE ACCESSIBLE TO 911 00:41:23,180 --> 00:41:23,547 EVERYONE. 912 00:41:23,547 --> 00:41:26,350 AND AFTER, YOU KNOW, 450,000 913 00:41:26,350 --> 00:41:29,220 PLUS IMAGES, IT'S SO HARD TO 914 00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:29,520 PICK. 915 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,889 WE WERE ABLE TO GO BACK IN AND 916 00:41:31,889 --> 00:41:33,757 GET 100 BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OR 917 00:41:33,757 --> 00:41:35,626 MORE, AND VIDEOS AND ALL KINDS 918 00:41:35,626 --> 00:41:36,260 OF -- 919 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:37,528 >> AND THERE'S A LINK. 920 00:41:37,528 --> 00:41:42,032 IF YOU WANT TO GET IT, YOU CAN 921 00:41:42,032 --> 00:41:45,703 DOWNLOAD IT OFF THE INTERNET. 922 00:41:45,703 --> 00:41:47,137 JIM, THANKS FOR JOINING US. 923 00:41:47,137 --> 00:41:50,474 THANKS FOR TAKING TIME FOR US. 924 00:41:50,474 --> 00:41:52,810 AND I KNOW YOU WANT TO GET BACK 925 00:41:52,810 --> 00:41:53,410 INTO THAT CONTROL ROOM. 926 00:41:53,410 --> 00:41:53,844 >> ABSOLUTELY. 927 00:41:53,844 --> 00:44:01,171 THANK YOU. 928 00:44:01,171 --> 00:44:03,474 >> WELL, WE ARE A LITTLE OVER 929 00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:05,109 TEN MINUTES AWAY FROM THE LOSS 930 00:44:05,109 --> 00:44:07,277 OF SIGNAL, SO WE WILL BE 931 00:44:07,277 --> 00:44:08,545 FOCUSING OUR ATTENTION TO THE 932 00:44:08,545 --> 00:44:09,580 CONTROL ROOM VERY SOON NOW. 933 00:44:09,580 --> 00:44:11,915 BUT BEFORE WE DO, LET'S TAKE A 934 00:44:11,915 --> 00:44:14,718 MOMENT TO CHAT WITH JPL DIRECTOR 935 00:44:14,718 --> 00:44:15,452 MIKEIR WATKINS. 936 00:44:15,452 --> 00:44:17,321 MIKE, HOW ARE YOU FEELING? 937 00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:19,556 >> WELL, FIRST, GOOD MORNING. 938 00:44:19,556 --> 00:44:22,693 >> YES, VERY EARLY. 939 00:44:22,693 --> 00:44:25,162 >> WE ALWAYS DO THESE EVENTS AT 940 00:44:25,162 --> 00:44:27,297 3:00 IN THE MORNING AND 5:00 IN 941 00:44:27,297 --> 00:44:27,998 THE MORNING. 942 00:44:27,998 --> 00:44:29,900 >> WHY DO WE DO THAT? 943 00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:32,036 >> IT'S PRETTY BITTERSWEET. 944 00:44:32,036 --> 00:44:34,671 FOR ME IT'S MORE SWEET THAN 945 00:44:34,671 --> 00:44:36,140 BITTER BECAUSE CASSINI HAS BEEN 946 00:44:36,140 --> 00:44:37,408 SUCH A FANTASTIC MISSION. 947 00:44:37,408 --> 00:44:39,443 ONE OFSS THE IMPORTANT THINGS OF 948 00:44:39,443 --> 00:44:42,479 THESE EVENTS IS TO CELEBRATE THE 949 00:44:42,479 --> 00:44:44,448 DECADES OF HARD WORK OF THE TEAM 950 00:44:44,448 --> 00:44:47,251 THAT DESIGNED, BUILT, AND WORKED 951 00:44:47,251 --> 00:44:48,052 ON CASSINI. 952 00:44:48,052 --> 00:44:49,119 THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN 953 00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:51,088 OPERATING IT, THIS IS A GREAT 954 00:44:51,088 --> 00:44:53,357 TIME TO CELEBRATE THAT LEVEL OF 955 00:44:53,357 --> 00:44:54,892 DEDICATION, THAT DEVOTION TO 956 00:44:54,892 --> 00:44:57,294 WORK ON SOMETHING FOR 10, 20, 30 957 00:44:57,294 --> 00:44:59,663 YEARS, THAT'S SORT OF 958 00:44:59,663 --> 00:45:01,131 UNPARALLELED IN HUMAN HISTORY. 959 00:45:01,131 --> 00:45:02,733 >> SO HOW DO YOU THINK CASSINI 960 00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:04,468 WILL BE REMEMBERED IN THE 961 00:45:04,468 --> 00:45:05,235 SCIENCE BOOKS? 962 00:45:05,235 --> 00:45:07,004 >> WELL, MOST OF THE SCIENCE 963 00:45:07,004 --> 00:45:11,542 BOOKS, MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE IN 964 00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:12,276 SCIENCE BOOKS ABOUT SATURN COME 965 00:45:12,276 --> 00:45:12,709 FROM CASSINI. 966 00:45:12,709 --> 00:45:13,777 IT WILL BE WELL REMEMBERED. 967 00:45:13,777 --> 00:45:15,979 IF YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING YOU 968 00:45:15,979 --> 00:45:17,981 KNOW, IT CAME FROM CASSINI ABOUT 969 00:45:17,981 --> 00:45:18,315 SATURN. 970 00:45:18,315 --> 00:45:18,682 ONE OF THE 971 00:45:18,682 --> 00:45:19,950 GREATEST LEGACIES OF 972 00:45:19,950 --> 00:45:21,518 A MISSION IS NOT JUST THE 973 00:45:21,518 --> 00:45:23,053 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES THAT IT 974 00:45:23,053 --> 00:45:24,021 MAKES AND WHAT YOU LEARN ABOUT 975 00:45:24,021 --> 00:45:28,692 IT, BUT THE FACT THAT YOU MAKE 976 00:45:28,692 --> 00:45:29,293 DISCOVERIES THAT ARE SO 977 00:45:29,293 --> 00:45:30,060 COMPELLING THAT YOU HAVE TO COME 978 00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:30,360 BACK. 979 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,762 AND THAT'S PART OF WHAT MAKES 980 00:45:31,762 --> 00:45:35,099 THE ENDES OF CASSINI SWEET IS THAT 981 00:45:35,099 --> 00:45:37,334 THE DISCOVERIES ARE SO GREAT 982 00:45:37,334 --> 00:45:40,771 THAT WE HAVE TO GO BACK. 983 00:45:40,771 --> 00:45:43,440 WE WILL GO BACK AND LOOK AT 984 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,374 ENCELADUS AND TITAN. 985 00:45:44,374 --> 00:45:48,512 >> THE WAY MISSIONS ARE, ONE 986 00:45:48,512 --> 00:45:51,915 SETS THE FOOTSTEPS FOR THE NEXT 987 00:45:51,915 --> 00:45:52,249 MISSION. 988 00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:53,784 WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT AFTER 989 00:45:53,784 --> 00:45:54,151 CASSINI? 990 00:45:54,151 --> 00:45:56,286 >> SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE 991 00:45:56,286 --> 00:45:58,455 LEARNED ABOUT THE OUTER SOLAR 992 00:45:58,455 --> 00:46:01,725 SYSTEM IS HOW MUCH WATER IS 993 00:46:01,725 --> 00:46:06,897 THERE. 994 00:46:06,897 --> 00:46:09,099 THE ZONE BETWEEN VENUS AND MARS. 995 00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:11,068 WES. REALIZE THERE'S A LOT OF 996 00:46:11,068 --> 00:46:16,807 WATER IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM, 997 00:46:16,807 --> 00:46:18,909 EUROPA, ENCELADUS, AND WHAT YOU 998 00:46:18,909 --> 00:46:21,178 SEE ABOUT THE PLANETS IS TO GO 999 00:46:21,178 --> 00:46:23,347 BACK AND LOOK AT THE OCEAN 1000 00:46:23,347 --> 00:46:26,016 WORLDS, TAKE A LOOK AT THE 1001 00:46:26,016 --> 00:46:27,718 COMPOSITION OF THE ICE. 1002 00:46:27,718 --> 00:46:29,520 ARE THESE HABITABLE PLACES? ARE 1003 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,555 THESE PLACES WHERE THERE COULD 1004 00:46:31,555 --> 00:46:32,356 BE LIFE? 1005 00:46:32,356 --> 00:46:34,992 WE HERE AT NASA HAVE PLANS TO GO 1006 00:46:34,992 --> 00:46:38,028 BACK TO MANY OF THE OCEAN 1007 00:46:38,028 --> 00:46:40,631 WORLDS. 1008 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:41,465 THE NEXT ONE IS MULTIPLE FLY BY 1009 00:46:41,465 --> 00:46:47,671 OF EUROPA, 40 OR 50 TIMES. 1010 00:46:47,671 --> 00:46:49,106 TAKING A CLOSE LOOK AT THAT 1011 00:46:49,106 --> 00:46:50,440 OCEAN FROM ABOVE THE ICE AND THE 1012 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,543 CAUTION OF THE ICE. WE'LL MAKE 1013 00:46:52,543 --> 00:46:54,411 OUR WAY TO THE OTHER OCEAN 1014 00:46:54,411 --> 00:46:54,745 WORLDS. 1015 00:46:54,745 --> 00:46:56,079 >> OCEAN WORLDS ARE THE THINGS 1016 00:46:56,079 --> 00:46:58,248 TOHI LOOK AT RIGHT NOW, IT SEEMS. 1017 00:46:58,248 --> 00:46:59,116 >> ABSOLUTELY. 1018 00:46:59,116 --> 00:47:00,984 THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IS ONE OF 1019 00:47:00,984 --> 00:47:04,621 THE COMPELLING THREADS FOR NASA. 1020 00:47:04,621 --> 00:47:09,193 IT'S BEEN A SCIENCE MISSION 1021 00:47:09,193 --> 00:47:11,495 DIRECTORATE FOR LIFE IN THE 1022 00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:12,262 SOLAR SYSTEM AND OUTSIDE THE 1023 00:47:12,262 --> 00:47:13,664 SOLAR SYSTEM. 1024 00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:15,799 BUT THE OCEAN WORLDS LOOK LIKE 1025 00:47:15,799 --> 00:47:17,734 AN INCREDIBLY COMPELLING TARGET. 1026 00:47:17,734 --> 00:47:19,670 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, MIKE, FOR 1027 00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:23,340 COMING BY AND JOINING US. 1028 00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:24,074 I KNOW ALL YOU GUYS WANT TO GET 1029 00:47:24,074 --> 00:47:25,075 BACK IN THERE IN THE CONTROL 1030 00:47:25,075 --> 00:47:26,543 ROOM AND BE THERE FOR THE 1031 00:47:26,543 --> 00:47:26,877 MOMENT. 1032 00:47:26,877 --> 00:47:28,345 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1033 00:47:28,345 --> 00:47:30,414 YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE COVERAGE OF 1034 00:47:30,414 --> 00:47:33,050 CASSINI'S FINAL HOUR FROM NASA'S 1035 00:47:33,050 --> 00:47:35,252 JET PROPULSION LABORATORY. 1036 00:47:35,252 --> 00:47:37,955 IT'S LOCATED IN PASADENA AND 1037 00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:39,056 MANAGED BY THE CALIFORNIA 1038 00:47:39,056 --> 00:47:40,657 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 1039 00:47:40,657 --> 00:47:43,126 LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT OUR LAST 1040 00:47:43,126 --> 00:47:43,827 HOUR DISPLAY. 1041 00:47:43,827 --> 00:47:47,030 OUR DISPLAY SHOWS THAT WE ARE 1042 00:47:47,030 --> 00:47:50,734 JUST OVER SEVEN MINUTES AWAY 1043 00:47:50,734 --> 00:47:52,869 FROM THE END OF MISSION. 1044 00:47:52,869 --> 00:47:56,673 AND IT'S NOW TRAVELING ABOUT 1045 00:47:56,673 --> 00:47:58,942 75,000 MILES PER HOUR. 1046 00:47:58,942 --> 00:48:03,513 SO CASSINI IS TRAVELING RAPIDLY 1047 00:48:03,513 --> 00:48:11,955 TOWARDS THIS END OF MISSION. 1048 00:48:11,955 --> 00:48:15,726 >> FOR ALL OF THE BEAUTY, THOSE 1049 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:17,027 ARE PLACES THAT STARTLE AND 1050 00:48:17,027 --> 00:48:18,462 AMAZE, BUT NOT A PLACE WHERE YOU 1051 00:48:18,462 --> 00:48:18,962 CAN LIVE. 1052 00:48:18,962 --> 00:48:21,031 I THINK IT BRINGS A PERSPECTIVE 1053 00:48:21,031 --> 00:48:24,134 ON THE EARTH AND WHAT A 1054 00:48:24,134 --> 00:48:32,776 WONDERFUL PLACE IT IS. 1055 00:48:32,776 --> 00:48:34,544 >> WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO TIME, 1056 00:48:34,544 --> 00:48:35,979 AND TIME WHERE WE SHOULD LOSE 1057 00:48:35,979 --> 00:48:36,880 THAT SIGNAL. 1058 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,483 FOLKS ARE WATCHING THE RADIO 1059 00:48:39,483 --> 00:48:40,617 DISPLAY RIGHT NOW. 1060 00:48:40,617 --> 00:48:43,420 SO LET'S GO TO TODD AND JOANIE 1061 00:48:43,420 --> 00:48:44,288 IN MISSION CONTROL. 1062 00:48:44,288 --> 00:48:48,091 >> HI, SIX MINUTES TO GO UNTIL 1063 00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:49,459 WE'RE SIX FEET UNDER. 1064 00:48:49,459 --> 00:48:52,362 IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO SAY 1065 00:48:52,362 --> 00:48:53,096 GOOD-BYE HERE. 1066 00:48:53,096 --> 00:48:55,265 RADIO DISPLAY LOOKS GREAT. 1067 00:48:55,265 --> 00:48:58,035 MISSION CONTROL, I HEAR A LOT OF 1068 00:48:58,035 --> 00:49:00,003 BUZZ IN THE ROOM ABOUT THE 1069 00:49:00,003 --> 00:49:01,805 THRUSTER CYCLES. 1070 00:49:01,805 --> 00:49:04,007 THE THRUSTERS ARE FIRING. 1071 00:49:04,007 --> 00:49:05,509 WE'RE STILL OUTSIDE THE 1072 00:49:05,509 --> 00:49:07,277 ATMOSPHERE, AND THEY'RE KEEPING 1073 00:49:07,277 --> 00:49:10,547 THAT POINTING ON EARTH AS LONG 1074 00:49:10,547 --> 00:49:16,286 AS POSSIBLE. 1075 00:49:16,286 --> 00:49:19,089 ONCE WE HIT THAT ATMOSPHERE, 1076 00:49:19,089 --> 00:49:20,791 THINGS HAPPEN SUPER FAST. 1077 00:49:20,791 --> 00:49:23,160 >> WE'RE IN LOW 8 MODE AND WE'RE 1078 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,562 WAITING FOR THE TRANSITION. 1079 00:49:25,562 --> 00:49:26,496 >> COPY. 1080 00:49:26,496 --> 00:49:27,698 THANK YOU. 1081 00:49:27,698 --> 00:49:29,933 >> FULL PROTECTION. 1082 00:49:29,933 --> 00:49:31,034 >> GO AHEAD. 1083 00:49:31,034 --> 00:49:34,705 >> JUST GOING TO GET A QUICK 1084 00:49:34,705 --> 00:49:35,906 UPDATE ON STATUS. 1085 00:49:35,906 --> 00:49:37,607 >> NOMINAL. 1086 00:49:37,607 --> 00:49:40,344 >> THERMAL SYSTEMS. 1087 00:49:40,344 --> 00:49:43,914 >> THERMAL DEVICES NOMINAL. 1088 00:49:43,914 --> 00:49:44,815 >> COPY. 1089 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:48,418 THANK YOU. 1090 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,323 >> SYSTEM FULL PROTECTION IS 1091 00:49:53,323 --> 00:49:55,058 NOMINAL. 1092 00:49:55,058 --> 00:49:55,992 >> COPY. 1093 00:49:55,992 --> 00:49:58,261 THANK YOU. 1094 00:49:58,261 --> 00:49:59,963 >> CDS IS NOMINAL. 1095 00:49:59,963 --> 00:50:02,699 TWO FRAMES BUFFERED. 1096 00:50:02,699 --> 00:50:03,667 >> COPY. 1097 00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:05,535 THANK YOU. 1098 00:50:05,535 --> 00:50:08,205 >> TELECOM SYSTEMS. 1099 00:50:08,205 --> 00:50:10,474 >> NOW GOOD, SNT. 1100 00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:13,176 >> THANK YOU. 1101 00:50:13,176 --> 00:50:13,510 RADIO? 1102 00:50:13,510 --> 00:50:18,749 >>O RADIO NOMINAL. 1103 00:50:18,749 --> 00:50:21,084 FREQUENCY IS STARTING TO 1104 00:50:21,084 --> 00:50:21,451 INCREASE. 1105 00:50:21,451 --> 00:50:22,986 >> COPY. 1106 00:50:22,986 --> 00:50:24,154 THANK YOU. 1107 00:50:24,154 --> 00:50:25,322 PROPULSION SYSTEMS. 1108 00:50:25,322 --> 00:50:29,559 >> PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES 1109 00:50:29,559 --> 00:50:32,329 ARE NOMINAL, PROPULSION IS 1110 00:50:32,329 --> 00:50:32,696 NOMINAL. 1111 00:50:32,696 --> 00:50:33,130 >> THANK YOU. 1112 00:50:33,130 --> 00:50:35,098 >> MISSION PLANNING SYSTEMS. 1113 00:50:35,098 --> 00:50:37,000 >> MISSION PLANNING IS NOMINAL. 1114 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:37,467 >> THANK YOU. 1115 00:50:37,467 --> 00:50:40,303 >> EVERYTHING IS NOMINAL. 1116 00:50:40,303 --> 00:50:44,174 >> COPY. 1117 00:50:44,174 --> 00:50:45,242 >> THANK YOU, ACE. 1118 00:50:45,242 --> 00:50:49,312 >> SO WHAT WE JUST HEARD WAS THE 1119 00:50:49,312 --> 00:50:52,416 ROOM GOING AROUND AND CHECKING 1120 00:50:52,416 --> 00:50:54,951 ALL THE SUBSYSTEMS. 1121 00:50:54,951 --> 00:51:00,290 SO FAR ALL OF THE SUBSYSTEMS ARE 1122 00:51:00,290 --> 00:51:01,024 NOMINAL, ABOUT THREE AND A HALF 1123 00:51:01,024 --> 00:51:01,591 TO TO MINUTES AWAY. 1124 00:51:01,591 --> 00:51:03,460 >> WE WENT FROM LOW RATE TO HIGH 1125 00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:04,060 RATE CONTROL. 1126 00:51:04,060 --> 00:51:05,228 CAN YOU COMMENT ON THAT? 1127 00:51:05,228 --> 00:51:07,664 >> SURE, WE HAVE OUR COMPUTER 1128 00:51:07,664 --> 00:51:08,432 CONTROLLING OUR POINTING HAS 1129 00:51:08,432 --> 00:51:10,934 DIFFERENT MODES, AND IT'S SMART 1130 00:51:10,934 --> 00:51:12,035 ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN WE START 1131 00:51:12,035 --> 00:51:14,237 HAVING TO FIGHT A LITTLE HARDER. 1132 00:51:14,237 --> 00:51:15,238 WE HEARD THE COMPUTER 1133 00:51:15,238 --> 00:51:17,207 ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY'RE HAVING 1134 00:51:17,207 --> 00:51:20,477 TO FIGHT A LITTLE BIT. 1135 00:51:20,477 --> 00:51:21,244 >> OKAY. 1136 00:51:21,244 --> 00:51:23,146 THANKS. 1137 00:51:23,146 --> 00:51:26,349 WE WERE REMARKING EARLIER, IT'S 1138 00:51:26,349 --> 00:51:27,784 INCREDIBLE THAT THIS ENTIRE 1139 00:51:27,784 --> 00:51:31,354 SPACECRAFT RUNS ON 600 WATTS OF 1140 00:51:31,354 --> 00:51:31,688 POWER. 1141 00:51:31,688 --> 00:51:34,791 >> ABOUT HALF A HAIR DRIER IS 1142 00:51:34,791 --> 00:51:35,926 ALL WE GOT RIGHT NOW. 1143 00:51:35,926 --> 00:51:37,694 >> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW 1144 00:51:37,694 --> 00:51:45,402 LITTLE FUEL WE HAVE RIGHT NOW. 1145 00:51:45,402 --> 00:52:09,192 UNDER THREE MINUTES NOW. 1146 00:52:09,192 --> 00:52:11,294 >> WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN WE 1147 00:52:11,294 --> 00:52:14,397 WILL LOSE SIGNAL, SO STAY TUNED. 1148 00:52:14,397 --> 00:52:18,768 RADIO SIGNAL LOOKS WONDERFUL. 1149 00:52:18,768 --> 00:52:21,171 S BAND AND X BAND, TWO DIFFERENT 1150 00:52:21,171 --> 00:52:23,173 RADIO BANDS STILL GETTING THE 1151 00:52:23,173 --> 00:52:23,507 SIGNAL. 1152 00:52:23,507 --> 00:52:25,775 >> PUSHING ABOUT 10 DEGREES 1153 00:52:25,775 --> 00:52:36,086 NORTHES LATITUDE ON SATURN. 1154 00:52:36,086 --> 00:52:38,655 >> I REMEMBER SEEING WE WERE 1155 00:52:38,655 --> 00:52:40,590 GOING TO HIT THE ATMOSPHERE 1156 00:52:40,590 --> 00:52:44,561 ABOUT T77,000 MILES AN HOUR; YOU 1157 00:52:44,561 --> 00:52:45,428 WERE CLOSE. 1158 00:52:45,428 --> 00:52:46,596 >>. YEAH. 1159 00:52:46,596 --> 00:52:59,342 >> TWO MINUTES AND COUNTING. 1160 00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:02,812 >> WE'RE STARTING TO EXIT. 1161 00:53:02,812 --> 00:53:06,917 >> THIS IS ACS ONE. 1162 00:53:06,917 --> 00:53:24,234 WE'RE STILL WAITING. 1163 00:53:24,234 --> 00:53:26,236 >> LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE STARTING 1164 00:53:26,236 --> 00:53:28,405 TO LOSE THE BATTLE WITH THE 1165 00:53:28,405 --> 00:53:28,805 ATMOSPHERE. 1166 00:53:28,805 --> 00:53:30,273 >> WE JUST HAD THE TRANSITION TO 1167 00:53:30,273 --> 00:53:37,180 HIGH RATE MODE WITH THIS, WE'RE 1168 00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:39,416 GOING TO SEE IT MOVE VERY 1169 00:53:39,416 --> 00:53:39,749 QUICKLY. 1170 00:53:39,749 --> 00:53:41,651 WE ARE IN THE ATMOSPHERE. 1171 00:53:41,651 --> 00:53:43,086 >> COPY. 1172 00:53:43,086 --> 00:53:43,853 THANK YOU. 1173 00:53:43,853 --> 00:53:46,489 >> ROUGHLY ONE MINUTE TILL LOSS 1174 00:53:46,489 --> 00:53:47,691 OF SIGNAL. 1175 00:53:47,691 --> 00:53:49,693 >> GO AHEAD. 1176 00:53:49,693 --> 00:53:54,197 >> WE CAN CONFIRM. 1177 00:53:54,197 --> 00:53:55,198 >> COPY. 1178 00:53:55,198 --> 00:53:59,169 THANK YOU. 1179 00:53:59,169 --> 00:54:03,506 >> I'M JUST STARTING TO SEE THE 1180 00:54:03,506 --> 00:54:11,715 THRUSTERS FIRE MORE AND MORE. 1181 00:54:11,715 --> 00:54:15,352 >> SIGNAL IS STILL HOLDING. 1182 00:54:15,352 --> 00:54:18,088 30 SECONDS. 1183 00:54:18,088 --> 00:54:20,457 >> SYSTEMS LEAD, MISSION 1184 00:54:22,892 --> 00:54:20,824 PLANNING. 1185 00:54:22,892 --> 00:54:25,295 >> SPACECRAFT JUST CROSSED 10 1186 00:54:25,295 --> 00:54:29,032 DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE, 1,000 1187 00:54:29,032 --> 00:54:29,366 MILES. 1188 00:54:29,366 --> 00:54:30,033 >> COPY. 1189 00:54:30,033 --> 00:54:33,236 THANK YOU. 1190 00:54:33,236 --> 00:54:34,571 >> ACS ONE. 1191 00:54:34,571 --> 00:54:35,572 >> GO AHEAD. 1192 00:54:35,572 --> 00:54:38,241 >> WITH THE ADDITIONAL THRUSTER 1193 00:54:38,241 --> 00:54:41,778 TIME, WE'RE GOING TO START 1194 00:54:41,778 --> 00:54:42,145 WRITING. 1195 00:54:42,145 --> 00:54:54,157 >> COPY. 1196 00:54:54,157 --> 00:55:53,316 >> WE CROSSED OUR ZERO TIME. 1197 00:55:53,316 --> 00:55:55,618 >> PROJECT MANAGER, FLIGHT 1198 00:55:55,618 --> 00:55:55,985 DIRECTOR. 1199 00:55:55,985 --> 00:55:56,653 >> GO AHEAD. 1200 00:55:56,653 --> 00:55:57,687 >> OKAY. 1201 00:55:57,687 --> 00:56:01,925 WE CALL LOSS OF SIGNAL, LOSS OF 1202 00:56:01,925 --> 00:56:13,336 X BAND AT... CALL LOSS OF SIGNAL 1203 00:56:13,336 --> 00:56:16,306 AT 115546 FOR THE S BAND. 1204 00:56:16,306 --> 00:56:19,876 THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE 1205 00:56:19,876 --> 00:56:20,276 SPACECRAFT. 1206 00:56:20,276 --> 00:56:21,444 >> COPY THAT. 1207 00:56:21,444 --> 00:56:27,350 PROJECT MANAGER ON FSO COORD. 1208 00:56:27,350 --> 00:56:29,519 MAYBE A TRICKLE OF TELEMETRY 1209 00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:32,455 LEFT, BUT THE SIGNAL FROM THE 1210 00:56:32,455 --> 00:56:33,690 SPACECRAFT IS GONE AND WITHIN 1211 00:56:33,690 --> 00:56:35,525 THE NEXT 45 SECONDS, SO WILL BE 1212 00:56:35,525 --> 00:56:36,760 THE SPACECRAFT. 1213 00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,262 I HOPE YOU'RE ALL AS DEEPLY 1214 00:56:39,262 --> 00:56:41,898 PROUD OF THIS AMAZING 1215 00:56:41,898 --> 00:56:42,899 ACCOMPLISHMENT. 1216 00:56:42,899 --> 00:56:43,867 CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL. 1217 00:56:43,867 --> 00:56:45,935 THIS HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE 1218 00:56:45,935 --> 00:56:48,138 MISSION, AN INCREDIBLE 1219 00:56:48,138 --> 00:56:51,341 SPACECRAFT, AND YOU'RE ALL AN 1220 00:56:51,341 --> 00:56:52,208 INCREDIBLE TEAM. 1221 00:56:52,208 --> 00:56:55,278 I'M GOING TO CALL THIS IS END OF 1222 00:56:55,278 --> 00:56:55,645 MISSION. 1223 00:56:55,645 --> 00:56:56,346 PROJECT MANAGER, OFF THE NET. 1224 00:56:56,346 --> 00:58:29,672 [ APPLAUSE ] 1225 00:58:31,207 --> 01:00:45,775 ♪♪ 1226 01:00:45,775 --> 01:00:48,945 >> SO JUST A SHORT TIME AGO, 1227 01:00:48,945 --> 01:00:50,513 JULIE WEBSTER, THE SPACE 1228 01:00:50,513 --> 01:00:52,315 OPERATIONS TEAM MANAGER AND 1229 01:00:52,315 --> 01:00:54,217 PROGRAM MANAGER EARL MAYS CALLED 1230 01:00:54,217 --> 01:00:57,520 IT THE END OF MISSION FOR 1231 01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:57,920 CASSINI. 1232 01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,124 IT CAME AT ABOUT 4:55, AS 1233 01:01:01,124 --> 01:01:01,591 PREDICTED. 1234 01:01:01,591 --> 01:01:04,794 LET'S GO TO BECKMAN AUDITORIUM 1235 01:01:04,794 --> 01:01:28,718 AND CHECK IN WITH MORGAN CABLE. 1236 01:01:28,718 --> 01:01:30,853 >> THERE'S GOING TO BE LOTS OF 1237 01:01:30,853 --> 01:01:32,255 DATA TO ANALYZE FOR YEARS TO 1238 01:01:32,255 --> 01:01:32,822 COME. 1239 01:01:32,822 --> 01:01:34,290 JONATHAN, HOW ARE YOU FEELING 1240 01:01:34,290 --> 01:01:36,192 RIGHT NOW? 1241 01:01:36,192 --> 01:01:38,261 >> I'M ACTUALLY BREATHING AGAIN. 1242 01:01:38,261 --> 01:01:41,264 I FEEL SAD, BUT WE FELT SAD THE 1243 01:01:41,264 --> 01:01:41,864 WHOLE WEEK. 1244 01:01:41,864 --> 01:01:43,499 WE KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO 1245 01:01:43,499 --> 01:01:44,000 HAPPEN. 1246 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,768 AND CASSINI PERFORMED EXACTLY AS 1247 01:01:45,768 --> 01:01:47,470 SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO. 1248 01:01:47,470 --> 01:01:49,439 I BET THERE'S SOME TERRIFIC DATA 1249 01:01:49,439 --> 01:01:52,442 ON THE GROUND NOW ABOUT SATURN'S 1250 01:01:52,442 --> 01:01:52,842 ATMOSPHERE. 1251 01:01:52,842 --> 01:01:54,877 >> I BET YOU'RE RIGHT. 1252 01:01:54,877 --> 01:01:57,080 WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY OF 1253 01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:57,447 CASSINI? 1254 01:01:57,447 --> 01:02:00,249 SHARE A STORY. 1255 01:02:00,249 --> 01:02:10,293 ANYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND. 1256 01:02:10,293 --> 01:02:13,062 >> ONE WAS SEEING THE SEAS OF 1257 01:02:13,062 --> 01:02:14,964 TITAN, AND THE OTHER WAS SEEING 1258 01:02:14,964 --> 01:02:21,070 THE SURFACE FROM THE PROBE. 1259 01:02:21,070 --> 01:02:22,772 SITTING WITH A TRAILER IN THE 1260 01:02:22,772 --> 01:02:24,607 MIDDLE OF GERMANY AND WINTER, 1261 01:02:24,607 --> 01:02:26,742 THERE WERE THE FIRST PICTURES OF 1262 01:02:26,742 --> 01:02:28,744 GULLIES ON THE SURFACE OF AN 1263 01:02:28,744 --> 01:02:29,445 ALIEN WORLD. 1264 01:02:29,445 --> 01:02:31,447 >> HOW DID THIS BLOW YOUR MIND? 1265 01:02:31,447 --> 01:02:32,215 >> IT DID. 1266 01:02:32,215 --> 01:02:33,683 I WAS SCREAMING. 1267 01:02:33,683 --> 01:02:34,584 SO WAS EVERYONE ELSE. 1268 01:02:34,584 --> 01:02:36,519 >> I THINK THE MOOD'S BEEN A 1269 01:02:36,519 --> 01:02:39,055 LITTLE MORE SOMBER NOW, BUT 1270 01:02:39,055 --> 01:02:39,956 THERE WAS APPLAUSE RIGHT NEAR 1271 01:02:39,956 --> 01:02:40,590 THE END. 1272 01:02:40,590 --> 01:02:42,658 THIS IS A CELEBRATION OF 1273 01:02:42,658 --> 01:02:45,595 CASSINI'S LIFE AND CASSINI'S 1274 01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:45,928 LEGACY. 1275 01:02:45,928 --> 01:02:47,096 WE SHOULD TALK A LITTLE BIT 1276 01:02:47,096 --> 01:02:48,331 ABOUT THE FUTURE. 1277 01:02:48,331 --> 01:02:52,034 WHAT DO YOU SEE NEXT FOR THE 1278 01:02:52,034 --> 01:02:53,069 SATURN SYSTEM? 1279 01:02:53,069 --> 01:02:54,871 >> WELL, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO 1280 01:02:54,871 --> 01:02:56,405 SEE NEXT IS THAT WE GO BACK 1281 01:02:56,405 --> 01:02:56,706 THERE. 1282 01:02:56,706 --> 01:02:59,208 AND THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT 1283 01:02:59,208 --> 01:03:01,477 CASSINI HAS GIVEN US IN TERMS OF 1284 01:03:01,477 --> 01:03:03,846 A LEGACY TO EXPLORE. 1285 01:03:03,846 --> 01:03:05,381 ENCELADUS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF 1286 01:03:05,381 --> 01:03:07,683 LIFE, TITAN AND ITS AMAZING 1287 01:03:07,683 --> 01:03:10,386 ATMOSPHERE AND LAKES AND SEAS 1288 01:03:10,386 --> 01:03:12,088 AND HYDROLOGIC CYCLE. 1289 01:03:12,088 --> 01:03:13,823 SATURN AND THE RINGS AND THE 1290 01:03:13,823 --> 01:03:16,058 MYSTERY OF WHAT LIES BENEATH THE 1291 01:03:16,058 --> 01:03:16,592 CLOUDS. 1292 01:03:16,592 --> 01:03:18,794 THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT THAT 1293 01:03:18,794 --> 01:03:20,630 CASSINI SAID TO US THAT WE MUST 1294 01:03:20,630 --> 01:03:22,198 GO BACK AND EXPLORE. 1295 01:03:22,198 --> 01:03:23,900 >> THERE'S A LOT LEFT TO DO IN 1296 01:03:23,900 --> 01:03:25,568 THE SATURN SYSTEM AND ELSEWHERE 1297 01:03:25,568 --> 01:03:39,182 IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM AS WELL. 1298 01:03:39,182 --> 01:03:41,584 IN TERMS OF FOLLOWING ON 1299 01:03:41,584 --> 01:03:43,719 CASSINI'S LEGACY AND MENTORING 1300 01:03:43,719 --> 01:03:45,488 THE NEXT GENERATION, WHAT DO YOU 1301 01:03:45,488 --> 01:03:47,523 SEE IN TERMS OF NEXT MISSIONS 1302 01:03:47,523 --> 01:03:49,225 COMING UP, BEING ABLE TO BRING 1303 01:03:49,225 --> 01:03:51,160 IN THE NEXT GENERATION OF 1304 01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,195 SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. 1305 01:03:52,195 --> 01:03:56,265 >> FIRST OF ALL, I'M VERY, VERY 1306 01:03:56,265 --> 01:03:58,234 CONFIDENT AND OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 1307 01:03:58,234 --> 01:03:59,702 THE NEXT GENERATION, BECAUSE I 1308 01:03:59,702 --> 01:04:01,604 CAN SEE THAT THE EXPERTS ARE 1309 01:04:01,604 --> 01:04:02,438 HERE ALREADY. 1310 01:04:02,438 --> 01:04:04,273 WE WILL BE WELL SERVED IN THE 1311 01:04:04,273 --> 01:04:04,607 FUTURE. 1312 01:04:04,607 --> 01:04:10,379 OF COURSE, NASA IS GOING BACK TO 1313 01:04:10,379 --> 01:04:13,616 EUROPA, WITH THE EUROPA CLIPPER 1314 01:04:13,616 --> 01:04:15,818 AND THE EUROPEANS ARE DOING 1315 01:04:15,818 --> 01:04:17,587 JUICE TO THE OTHER MOONS. 1316 01:04:17,587 --> 01:04:19,655 THERE ARE CONCEPTS FOR GOING 1317 01:04:19,655 --> 01:04:22,658 BACK TO ENCELADUS AND TITAN AND 1318 01:04:22,658 --> 01:04:22,992 SATURN. 1319 01:04:22,992 --> 01:04:26,028 WE DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THOSE 1320 01:04:26,028 --> 01:04:26,796 ARE GOING HAPPEN IN THE NEXT FEW 1321 01:04:26,796 --> 01:04:28,130 YEARS, BUT WE'LL SEE. THE 1322 01:04:28,130 --> 01:04:29,298 IMPORTANT POINT IS THAT CASSINI 1323 01:04:29,298 --> 01:04:32,768 HAS GOT TO BE A JUMPING OFF 1324 01:04:32,768 --> 01:04:37,773 POINT TO EVEN MORE EXCITING 1325 01:04:37,773 --> 01:04:42,044 EXPLORATORY MISSIONS. 1326 01:04:42,044 --> 01:04:47,483 WE NEED TO GO BACK TO SATURN AND 1327 01:04:47,483 --> 01:04:48,718 URANUS AND NEAP TUNE. 1328 01:04:48,718 --> 01:04:51,120 >> I THINK ONE OF THE AMAZING 1329 01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:52,555 THINGS THAT CASSINI HAS SHOWN US 1330 01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:55,091 IS THAT IT'S NOT A BORING, COLD 1331 01:04:55,091 --> 01:04:55,491 PLACE. 1332 01:04:55,491 --> 01:04:58,227 IT'S DYNAMIC AND SO INCREDIBLY 1333 01:04:58,227 --> 01:04:58,561 VARIED. 1334 01:04:58,561 --> 01:05:00,496 THE DIFFERENCES IN THE MOONS OF 1335 01:05:00,496 --> 01:05:02,365 SATURN ALONE INSPIRES US TO WANT 1336 01:05:02,365 --> 01:05:04,233 TO GO BACK AND LEARN MORE. 1337 01:05:04,233 --> 01:05:07,803 >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, 40 YEARS AGO, 1338 01:05:07,803 --> 01:05:09,972 VOYAGER 1 WAS LAUNCHED. 1339 01:05:09,972 --> 01:05:12,775 IT WAS VOYAGER 1 AND 2 THAT 1340 01:05:12,775 --> 01:05:14,443 BROKE UP THE OUTER SYSTEM FOR 1341 01:05:14,443 --> 01:05:19,382 US, TOLD US THAT THIS WAS NOT A 1342 01:05:19,382 --> 01:05:22,118 COLD DEAD PLACE. 1343 01:05:22,118 --> 01:05:26,422 GALILEO CASSINI FOLLOWED ON AND 1344 01:05:26,422 --> 01:05:28,157 SHOWED US WHAT WERE GOING ON IN 1345 01:05:28,157 --> 01:05:30,259 THE SYSTEM AND THAT THERE MIGHT 1346 01:05:30,259 --> 01:05:31,794 BE PLACES FOR LIFE TO EXIST. 1347 01:05:31,794 --> 01:05:33,729 I HAVE A POEM THAT I WANT TO 1348 01:05:33,729 --> 01:05:35,264 READ TO YOU AS WELL AT SOME 1349 01:05:35,264 --> 01:05:35,598 POINT. 1350 01:05:35,598 --> 01:05:36,465 IS THIS A GOOD TIME? 1351 01:05:36,465 --> 01:05:38,334 >> I THINK IT'S A GREAT TIME. 1352 01:05:38,334 --> 01:05:40,069 >> A LOT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT 1353 01:05:40,069 --> 01:05:41,170 CASSINI ALREADY, AND THE END OF 1354 01:05:41,170 --> 01:05:43,105 THE MISSION. 1355 01:05:43,105 --> 01:05:45,574 BUT I THINK THAT THE BEST I CAN 1356 01:05:45,574 --> 01:05:49,145 DO TO LEAVE, FOR ME, LEAVE THIS 1357 01:05:49,145 --> 01:05:51,180 CELEBRATION OF CASSINI'S END IS 1358 01:05:51,180 --> 01:05:56,752 TO READ A BIT OF A POEM, "ON THE 1359 01:05:56,752 --> 01:05:58,521 VERGE," A NAUTICAL POEM ABOUT 1360 01:05:58,521 --> 01:05:59,322 DEATH AND DYING. 1361 01:05:59,322 --> 01:06:01,190 AND SO, I'M GOING TO READ THE 1362 01:06:01,190 --> 01:06:04,093 LAST FEW LINES OF IT. 1363 01:06:04,093 --> 01:06:09,098 AND I HAVE CHANGED ONE OF THE 1364 01:06:09,098 --> 01:06:10,866 WORDS. 1365 01:06:10,866 --> 01:06:13,536 AH, BUT HEAR CASSINI'S HEART 1366 01:06:13,536 --> 01:06:16,672 LEAPS, YEARNING TOWARDS THE 1367 01:06:16,672 --> 01:06:17,440 BLUE. 1368 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,843 ROCK NOR SHOAL, FROM THE SHORE 1369 01:06:20,843 --> 01:06:23,179 THAT HATH NO SHORE, BEYOND WHAT 1370 01:06:23,179 --> 01:06:24,513 IS SAID IN ALL THE SEA. 1371 01:06:24,513 --> 01:06:25,448 >> THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 1372 01:06:25,448 --> 01:06:28,351 YOU HAD TO DO THAT, DIDN'T YOU? 1373 01:06:28,351 --> 01:06:29,819 THANK YOU JONATHAN, FOR 1374 01:06:29,819 --> 01:06:30,219 EVERYTHING. 1375 01:06:30,219 --> 01:06:32,788 >> MORGAN, THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR 1376 01:06:32,788 --> 01:06:34,757 HANDS AND THE HANDS OF YOUR 1377 01:06:34,757 --> 01:06:35,157 GENERATION. 1378 01:06:35,157 --> 01:06:36,692 AND THIS WAS A MOMENT OF 1379 01:06:36,692 --> 01:06:37,093 TRANSITION. 1380 01:06:37,093 --> 01:06:38,961 IT WAS NOT THE END. 1381 01:06:38,961 --> 01:06:42,798 AND SO LET'S EXPLORE THE SOLAR 1382 01:06:42,798 --> 01:06:43,566 SYSTEM TOGETHER. 1383 01:06:43,566 --> 01:06:46,502 >> ALL RIGHT. 1384 01:06:46,502 --> 01:06:53,142 THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. 1385 01:06:53,142 --> 01:06:54,844 WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION BEING IN 1386 01:06:54,844 --> 01:06:56,312 THAT CONTROL ROOM? 1387 01:06:56,312 --> 01:06:59,014 >> I WAS JUST OVERWHELMED WITH 1388 01:06:59,014 --> 01:07:01,917 UNDERSTANDING HOW PROFESSIONAL 1389 01:07:01,917 --> 01:07:04,820 THIS TEAM IS. 1390 01:07:04,820 --> 01:07:07,556 IT WAS CLEARLY EMOTIONAL FOR 1391 01:07:07,556 --> 01:07:07,923 EVERYONE. 1392 01:07:07,923 --> 01:07:09,892 THE LUCKY PEANUTS WERE THERE, 1393 01:07:09,892 --> 01:07:13,896 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF KLEENEX. 1394 01:07:13,896 --> 01:07:15,164 I SAW IT HAPPENING. 1395 01:07:15,164 --> 01:07:17,633 IT WENT SO FAST. SOMEBODY WAS 1396 01:07:17,633 --> 01:07:21,137 SHOUTING OUT, WOW, WE'RE 1397 01:07:21,137 --> 01:07:24,106 STRUGGLE WITH Z AXIS AND, OH, 1398 01:07:24,106 --> 01:07:25,608 IT'S GONE. THE WHOLE TEAM 1399 01:07:25,608 --> 01:07:27,743 WORKED UNTIL THE VERY END. 1400 01:07:27,743 --> 01:07:29,145 IT WAS ALL ABOUT TEAM WORK. 1401 01:07:29,145 --> 01:07:31,647 IT SHOWED UNTIL THE LAST 1402 01:07:31,647 --> 01:07:32,014 SECONDS. 1403 01:07:32,014 --> 01:07:33,182 >> IT TRULY DID. 1404 01:07:33,182 --> 01:07:35,451 WHAT SORT OF LEGACY DO YOU THINK 1405 01:07:35,451 --> 01:07:36,452 THIS MISSION LEAVES? 1406 01:07:36,452 --> 01:07:38,254 >> I THINK IT REWROTE NOT ONLY 1407 01:07:38,254 --> 01:07:39,855 WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE OUTER 1408 01:07:39,855 --> 01:07:41,590 SOLAR SYSTEM, BUT HOW WE THINK 1409 01:07:41,590 --> 01:07:43,692 AS HUMANS ABOUT OURSELVES. YOU 1410 01:07:43,692 --> 01:07:46,462 KNOW, THESE WORLDS THAT HAVE 1411 01:07:46,462 --> 01:07:47,930 FOUND, WE NEVER KNEW WERE THERE, 1412 01:07:47,930 --> 01:07:50,833 ARE CHANGING HOW WE THINK ABOUT 1413 01:07:50,833 --> 01:07:51,367 LIFE ITSELF. 1414 01:07:51,367 --> 01:07:55,004 FOR ME, THAT'S WHY IT'S TRULY A 1415 01:07:55,004 --> 01:07:56,405 CIVILIZATION SCALE MISSION, ONE 1416 01:07:56,405 --> 01:07:58,407 THAT WILL STAND OUT AMONG OTHER 1417 01:07:58,407 --> 01:07:59,642 MISSIONS ANYWHERE. 1418 01:07:59,642 --> 01:08:02,778 >> AND HOW WILL IT IMPACT FUTURE 1419 01:08:02,778 --> 01:08:05,080 IDEAS AND FUTURE MISSIONS AS WE 1420 01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:06,148 PLAN NEW THINGS? 1421 01:08:06,148 --> 01:08:08,684 >> SOME OF THE HARDEST QUESTIONS 1422 01:08:08,684 --> 01:08:11,754 TO ANSWER ARE QUESTIONS LIKE IS 1423 01:08:11,754 --> 01:08:13,522 THERE LIFE OUT THERE? 1424 01:08:13,522 --> 01:08:17,293 AND THIS MISSION REDEFINES THAT 1425 01:08:17,293 --> 01:08:18,561 AND WILL AFFECT HOW WE THINK 1426 01:08:18,561 --> 01:08:20,029 ABOUT THAT QUESTION. 1427 01:08:20,029 --> 01:08:21,530 WE'RE TACKLING THAT WITH A 1428 01:08:21,530 --> 01:08:22,998 MULTITUDE OF MISSIONS, LOOKING 1429 01:08:22,998 --> 01:08:29,038 BACK AT MARS. SO LOOKING AT 1430 01:08:29,038 --> 01:08:32,341 EUROPA, OUTER OCEANS, AND 1431 01:08:32,341 --> 01:08:38,814 FINDING THEM ALL OVER OUR 1432 01:08:38,814 --> 01:08:39,148 GALAXY. 1433 01:08:39,148 --> 01:08:40,616 THE THOUSANDS OF THE EXO PLANETS 1434 01:08:40,616 --> 01:08:43,285 AND SATURN-LIKE AND 1435 01:08:43,285 --> 01:08:44,253 JUPITER-LIKE, AND THINKING ABOUT 1436 01:08:44,253 --> 01:08:45,955 THEM IN A TOTALLY NEW WAY. 1437 01:08:45,955 --> 01:08:49,959 >> SO THE THOUGHT IS PEOPLE ARE 1438 01:08:49,959 --> 01:08:52,862 CAN CLAMOURING TO GO BACK. 1439 01:08:52,862 --> 01:08:54,663 WILL THAT BE DIFFICULT TO DO? 1440 01:08:54,663 --> 01:08:56,298 TO BE ABLE TO ENVISION ANOTHER 1441 01:08:56,298 --> 01:09:00,202 MISSION TO THESE PLACES SOON? 1442 01:09:00,202 --> 01:09:00,970 >> IT'S ALWAYS VERY DIFFICULT TO 1443 01:09:00,970 --> 01:09:02,738 DO, BECAUSE THESE MACHINES ARE 1444 01:09:02,738 --> 01:09:03,506 SO HARD. 1445 01:09:03,506 --> 01:09:05,608 TO GO BACK AND TAKE THE NEXT 1446 01:09:05,608 --> 01:09:07,510 STEP ON ENCELADUS, WE WANT TO 1447 01:09:07,510 --> 01:09:08,711 REALLY THINK WHAT THAT WOULD 1448 01:09:08,711 --> 01:09:10,312 TAKE THERE'S GREAT IDEAS ALREADY 1449 01:09:10,312 --> 01:09:13,482 OUT THERE, AND PERHAPS SOME OF 1450 01:09:13,482 --> 01:09:14,183 THESE IDEAS WILL COME TO 1451 01:09:14,183 --> 01:09:15,918 FRUITION RELATIVELY EARLY, I 1452 01:09:15,918 --> 01:09:16,585 DON'T KNOW. 1453 01:09:16,585 --> 01:09:18,621 BUT WE WANT TO REALLY START 1454 01:09:18,621 --> 01:09:20,489 THINKING AND TALKING ABOUT THIS. 1455 01:09:20,489 --> 01:09:22,791 AND THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY 1456 01:09:22,791 --> 01:09:24,527 OVERALL, I WOULD ENCOURAGE THEM 1457 01:09:24,527 --> 01:09:26,495 TO REALLY START MAKING PLANS SO 1458 01:09:26,495 --> 01:09:29,164 WE CAN CREATE A CONSENSUS AS TO 1459 01:09:29,164 --> 01:09:30,733 WHAT DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO IN. 1460 01:09:30,733 --> 01:09:33,102 YES, WE WANT TO REALLY GO BACK. 1461 01:09:33,102 --> 01:09:34,770 THIS IS SUCH A WONDERFUL SYSTEM. 1462 01:09:34,770 --> 01:09:36,639 WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE IT ALONE. 1463 01:09:36,639 --> 01:09:39,141 >> AND SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ONE THAT 1464 01:09:39,141 --> 01:09:40,609 HAS AFFECTED SO MANY PEOPLE. 1465 01:09:40,609 --> 01:09:43,512 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING 1466 01:09:43,512 --> 01:09:51,053 THIS MOMENT WITH US. 1467 01:09:51,053 --> 01:09:53,155 >> THIS WAS A MULTINATIONAL 1468 01:09:53,155 --> 01:09:54,924 TEAM, AND IN A FEW MOMENTS, WE 1469 01:09:54,924 --> 01:10:01,897 WILL BE SPEAKING TO MEMBERS OF 1470 01:10:01,897 --> 01:10:05,935 OUR PARTNER NATIONS ABOUT THEIR 1471 01:10:05,935 --> 01:11:37,726 FEELINGS ABOUT THIS MISSION. 1472 01:11:39,061 --> 01:11:39,328 ♪♪ 1473 01:12:08,624 --> 01:12:10,626 >> AS WE TOLD YOU EARLIER, THIS 1474 01:12:10,626 --> 01:12:12,327 WAS A MULTINATIONAL ENDEAVOR 1475 01:12:12,327 --> 01:12:14,396 FROM THE VERY, VERY START, A 1476 01:12:14,396 --> 01:12:16,598 PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN NASA, THE 1477 01:12:16,598 --> 01:12:18,701 EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, AND THE 1478 01:12:18,701 --> 01:12:22,438 ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY THIS IS AN 1479 01:12:22,438 --> 01:12:26,442 EQUALLY PROUD MOMENT FOR ALL 1480 01:12:26,442 --> 01:12:32,815 INVOLVED. 1481 01:12:32,815 --> 01:12:35,684 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING. 1482 01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:37,319 WAS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU 1483 01:12:37,319 --> 01:12:39,288 DECIDED YOU WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR 1484 01:12:39,288 --> 01:12:40,022 THE WORLD? 1485 01:12:40,022 --> 01:12:41,690 >> OF COURSE WE COULDN'T MISS 1486 01:12:41,690 --> 01:12:43,392 IT, BECAUSE WE KNEW THIS MOMENT 1487 01:12:43,392 --> 01:12:44,626 WAS GOING TO COME. 1488 01:12:44,626 --> 01:12:46,361 IT'S A LITTLE BIT SAD, BECAUSE 1489 01:12:46,361 --> 01:12:49,898 WE WANTED TO DELAY IT AS MUCH AS 1490 01:12:49,898 --> 01:12:50,666 POSSIBLE AND GET AS MUCH SCIENCE 1491 01:12:50,666 --> 01:12:53,001 AS POSSIBLE, BUT WE KNEW IT WAS 1492 01:12:53,001 --> 01:12:53,335 COMING. 1493 01:12:53,335 --> 01:12:55,037 IN THAT SENSE IT WAS SAD, BUT 1494 01:12:55,037 --> 01:12:57,172 ALSO VERY NICE TO SEE THAT WE 1495 01:12:57,172 --> 01:13:00,209 HAVE OPENED THE POSSIBILITY FOR 1496 01:13:00,209 --> 01:13:02,811 THE FUTURE SCIENCE, ALSO, AND 1497 01:13:02,811 --> 01:13:04,513 FOR THE SCIENTISTS WHO ARE 1498 01:13:04,513 --> 01:13:06,281 WORKING ON THE DATA THAT CASSINI 1499 01:13:06,281 --> 01:13:08,584 HAS COLLECTED. 1500 01:13:08,584 --> 01:13:10,719 AND ALSO AS AN EXAMPLE, I THINK 1501 01:13:10,719 --> 01:13:13,956 WE HAVE TO BUILD ON THIS 1502 01:13:13,956 --> 01:13:16,759 COOPERATION BETWEEN U.S. AND 1503 01:13:16,759 --> 01:13:18,360 EUROPE IN AMBITIOUS MISSIONS 1504 01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:19,094 LIKE THIS. 1505 01:13:19,094 --> 01:13:20,562 WE ARE VERY PROUD OF HAVING 1506 01:13:20,562 --> 01:13:21,697 WORKED TOGETHER, AND WE HAVE TO 1507 01:13:21,697 --> 01:13:23,966 MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE THIS 1508 01:13:23,966 --> 01:13:26,969 WAY, BECAUSE TOGETHER WE CAN DO 1509 01:13:26,969 --> 01:13:30,973 MUCH BETTER. 1510 01:13:30,973 --> 01:13:33,408 >> AND ROBERTO, YOUR FEELINGS TO 1511 01:13:33,408 --> 01:13:34,610 BE A PART OF THIS? 1512 01:13:34,610 --> 01:13:36,512 >> IT'S A VERY HISTORICAL 1513 01:13:36,512 --> 01:13:38,781 MOMENT, AND TO BE A PART OF THAT 1514 01:13:38,781 --> 01:13:43,685 IS EMOTIONALLY INTENSE. 1515 01:13:43,685 --> 01:13:45,854 I KNOW THE STORY OF MY FRIENDS 1516 01:13:45,854 --> 01:13:47,556 AND COLLEAGUES, AND CASSINI 1517 01:13:47,556 --> 01:13:49,024 DEMONSTRATED WE CAN DO THAT. 1518 01:13:49,024 --> 01:13:50,659 WE CAN CREATE A CONDITION FOR 1519 01:13:50,659 --> 01:13:53,962 THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION 1520 01:13:53,962 --> 01:13:55,697 AND MISSION. 1521 01:13:55,697 --> 01:13:57,332 LEARNING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF 1522 01:13:57,332 --> 01:13:59,902 THINGS FOR THE FUTURE IS ONE 1523 01:13:59,902 --> 01:14:00,803 GIGANTIC STEP TOWARDS THE 1524 01:14:00,803 --> 01:14:01,136 FUTURE. 1525 01:14:01,136 --> 01:14:02,471 MAYBE WE CAN HOPE THIS IS NOT 1526 01:14:02,471 --> 01:14:05,240 THE LAST ONE, BUT ONLY THE FIRST 1527 01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:05,507 ONE. 1528 01:14:05,507 --> 01:14:07,409 >> WERE YOU SURPRISED AT HOW 1529 01:14:07,409 --> 01:14:10,746 LONG THIS MISSION HAS LASTED? 1530 01:14:10,746 --> 01:14:12,881 AND THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION 1531 01:14:12,881 --> 01:14:16,218 AND SCIENCE THAT IT HAS BROUGHT 1532 01:14:16,218 --> 01:14:16,685 BACK? 1533 01:14:16,685 --> 01:14:19,388 >> NOT SO MUCH THE LENGTH. 1534 01:14:19,388 --> 01:14:21,223 I THINK WE ALL DREAMT ABOUT IT, 1535 01:14:21,223 --> 01:14:23,692 BUT THE DISCOVERIES AND THE -- 1536 01:14:23,692 --> 01:14:26,962 WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IN THE 1537 01:14:26,962 --> 01:14:29,865 CASSINI -- IN THE SATURN SYSTEM 1538 01:14:29,865 --> 01:14:33,268 IS SIMPLY AMAZING. 1539 01:14:33,268 --> 01:14:33,969 WE WERE SURPRISED BY THAT. 1540 01:14:33,969 --> 01:14:36,338 >> AND WORKING ON TITAN. 1541 01:14:36,338 --> 01:14:38,307 I MEAN, WHAT WAS THE HIGH POINTS 1542 01:14:38,307 --> 01:14:39,208 FOR YOU? 1543 01:14:39,208 --> 01:14:42,878 >> WELL, FOR ME, HOIGANS WAS 1544 01:14:42,878 --> 01:14:43,946 GETTING TO TITAN. 1545 01:14:43,946 --> 01:14:59,061 WE LANDED THERE IN 2005. 1546 01:14:59,061 --> 01:15:01,930 THIS IS WHAT WE THOUGHT THAT 1547 01:15:01,930 --> 01:15:05,200 THIS BODIES OUT OF THE SOLAR 1548 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,436 SYSTEM WHERE THE FULL LIFE COULD 1549 01:15:07,436 --> 01:15:08,570 APPEAR. AND WE WANTED TO 1550 01:15:08,570 --> 01:15:09,104 ANALYZE THAT. 1551 01:15:09,104 --> 01:15:12,908 BUT THEN WE FOUND THAT WE COULD 1552 01:15:12,908 --> 01:15:15,978 EVEN LAND. 1553 01:15:15,978 --> 01:15:17,679 WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW THE SURFACE 1554 01:15:17,679 --> 01:15:18,013 WAS. 1555 01:15:18,013 --> 01:15:19,915 WE DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS GOING 1556 01:15:19,915 --> 01:15:21,516 TO SINK OR LAND OR WHATEVER. 1557 01:15:21,516 --> 01:15:23,252 >> AND IT WAS ALIVE FOR SOMETIME 1558 01:15:23,252 --> 01:15:24,152 WHEN IT LANDED. 1559 01:15:24,152 --> 01:15:26,588 >> AND THAT WAS AMAZING. 1560 01:15:26,588 --> 01:15:28,457 ALSO WE COULD SEE FIRST THIS WAS 1561 01:15:28,457 --> 01:15:31,293 THE FURTHEST AWAY LANDING EVER 1562 01:15:31,293 --> 01:15:34,596 OF A HUMAN-MADE PROBE. 1563 01:15:34,596 --> 01:15:38,033 BUT ALSO WE HAVE A LANDSCAPE, 1564 01:15:38,033 --> 01:15:41,570 TOTALLY UNEXPECTED, OF TITAN. 1565 01:15:41,570 --> 01:15:44,873 SOMETHING SIMILAR TO EARTH, 1566 01:15:44,873 --> 01:15:54,349 ACTUALLY. 1567 01:15:54,349 --> 01:15:57,352 WE HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT 1568 01:15:57,352 --> 01:16:00,555 COMPOSITION, SIGNS OF METHANE 1569 01:16:00,555 --> 01:16:01,189 RATHER THAN WATER. 1570 01:16:01,189 --> 01:16:04,760 >> BUT LOOKING AT IT, IT DOES 1571 01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:08,664 LOOK VERY, VERY FAMILIAR. 1572 01:16:08,664 --> 01:16:10,599 AND LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR ROLE 1573 01:16:10,599 --> 01:16:12,401 AND THE HIGH GAIN ANTENNA. 1574 01:16:12,401 --> 01:16:15,237 SO OFTEN THE PROJECT RELIED ON 1575 01:16:15,237 --> 01:16:17,172 THE HIGH GAIN ANTENNA AS 1576 01:16:17,172 --> 01:16:22,511 PROTECTION FOR THE REST OF THE 1577 01:16:22,511 --> 01:16:22,911 SPACECRAFT. 1578 01:16:22,911 --> 01:16:24,279 WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS 1579 01:16:24,279 --> 01:16:25,681 PLANNED, AND YOU THOUGHT THIS IS 1580 01:16:25,681 --> 01:16:27,416 THE WAY TO USE THE ANTENNA? 1581 01:16:27,416 --> 01:16:33,689 >> THE ANTENNA IS AMAZING. 1582 01:16:33,689 --> 01:16:35,857 ITE IT'S THE MOST SOPHISTICATED 1583 01:16:35,857 --> 01:16:39,661 ANTENNA, OPERATING FOR 20 YEARS 1584 01:16:39,661 --> 01:16:42,898 ALMOST CONTINUALLY. 1585 01:16:42,898 --> 01:16:47,669 IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE A PASSIVE 1586 01:16:47,669 --> 01:16:50,105 PROTECTION SYSTEM. 1587 01:16:50,105 --> 01:16:52,474 SHIELDING THE SATELLITE FROM THE 1588 01:16:52,474 --> 01:16:55,811 INTENSE SOLAR RADIATION. 1589 01:16:55,811 --> 01:16:59,948 AND GETTING INTO THE SATURN 1590 01:16:59,948 --> 01:17:01,883 ENVIRONMENT, IT WAS SHIELDING 1591 01:17:01,883 --> 01:17:04,419 AGAIN, MEASURING BY THE 1592 01:17:04,419 --> 01:17:08,423 VIBRATION OF THE ANTENNA ITSELF 1593 01:17:08,423 --> 01:17:11,593 THE AMOUNT OF MICROWAVES, AND 1594 01:17:11,593 --> 01:17:14,896 USE THAT AS PROTECTION IN THE 1595 01:17:14,896 --> 01:17:17,165 SPACE BETWEEN THE SATURN PLANET, 1596 01:17:17,165 --> 01:17:21,303 WHICH WAS UNKNOWN, TOTALLY 1597 01:17:21,303 --> 01:17:21,703 UNKNOWN. 1598 01:17:21,703 --> 01:17:26,675 I THINK THIS IS AMAZING, SUCH A 1599 01:17:26,675 --> 01:17:28,210 SOPHISTICATED INSTRUMENT AS A 1600 01:17:28,210 --> 01:17:29,144 SHIELD. 1601 01:17:29,144 --> 01:17:31,413 >> AND CASSINI WAS SUCH A 1602 01:17:31,413 --> 01:17:34,149 WELL-MADE MACHINE, AND SERVED SO 1603 01:17:34,149 --> 01:17:34,449 WELL. 1604 01:17:34,449 --> 01:17:38,553 I THINK IN ITS ENTIRE FLIGHT, IT 1605 01:17:38,553 --> 01:17:42,224 WAS -- IT HAD ONLY SAVED THREE 1606 01:17:42,224 --> 01:17:42,791 TIMES. 1607 01:17:42,791 --> 01:17:44,693 COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT 1608 01:17:44,693 --> 01:17:46,361 BOTH OF YOUR ORGANIZATIONS. 1609 01:17:46,361 --> 01:17:47,829 AND WE ARE SO PLEASED THAT YOU 1610 01:17:47,829 --> 01:17:48,997 ARE HERE AND JOINING US. 1611 01:17:48,997 --> 01:17:52,567 >> THESE ARE THE KIND OF STORIES 1612 01:17:52,567 --> 01:17:54,302 ABOUT SPACE MISSIONS THAT SHOULD 1613 01:17:54,302 --> 01:17:55,737 BE TOLD, BECAUSE THE FACT THAT 1614 01:17:55,737 --> 01:17:59,207 IT WAS SMOOTH AND PERFECTLY 1615 01:17:59,207 --> 01:18:01,710 DESIGNED WITHOUT TROUBLE IS A 1616 01:18:01,710 --> 01:18:03,245 TREMENDOUS GIANT BOND THAT 1617 01:18:03,245 --> 01:18:04,046 SHOULD BE KNOWN. 1618 01:18:04,046 --> 01:18:04,980 >> THANK YOU AGAIN FOR COMING 1619 01:18:04,980 --> 01:18:07,282 OUT AND BEING WITH US ON THIS 1620 01:18:07,282 --> 01:18:09,484 VERY, VERY SPECIAL DAY. 1621 01:18:09,484 --> 01:18:10,018 >> THANK YOU. 1622 01:18:10,018 --> 01:18:54,996 >> ALL RIGHT. 1623 01:18:56,731 --> 01:20:35,463 ♪♪ 1624 01:20:35,463 --> 01:20:38,767 >> THAT VIDEO WAS CALLED CASSINI 1625 01:20:38,767 --> 01:20:40,802 INSPIRES, MADE UP OF IMAGES THAT 1626 01:20:40,802 --> 01:20:43,572 THE PUBLIC SENT IN USING SOME OF 1627 01:20:43,572 --> 01:20:47,642 CASSINI'S RAW IMAGES AS WELL AS 1628 01:20:47,642 --> 01:20:48,143 YOUR OWN ARTWORK. 1629 01:20:48,143 --> 01:20:48,677 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1630 01:20:48,677 --> 01:20:51,146 THAT WRAPS IT UP FROM HERE, A 1631 01:20:51,146 --> 01:20:52,881 BITTERSWEET DAY FOR THE CASSINI 1632 01:20:52,881 --> 01:20:54,416 TEAM, BUT WE CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL 1633 01:20:54,416 --> 01:20:56,885 PROUD OF THE FANTASTIC PEOPLE 1634 01:20:56,885 --> 01:20:59,020 THAT MADE THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1635 01:20:59,020 --> 01:21:00,755 POSSIBLE. 1636 01:21:00,755 --> 01:21:03,124 THESE LAST 20 YEARS. 1637 01:21:03,124 --> 01:21:05,961 ABOUT AN HOUR FROM NOW AT 6:30 1638 01:21:05,961 --> 01:21:09,164 A.M. PACIFIC, 9:30 A.M. EASTERN, 1639 01:21:09,164 --> 01:21:10,999 THERE WILL BE A NEWS BRIEFING. 1640 01:21:10,999 --> 01:21:14,903 IT WILL BE LIVE ON NASA TV AND 1641 01:21:14,903 --> 01:21:17,405 ALSO STREAMED. 1642 01:21:17,405 --> 01:21:18,573 FIR MORE INFORMATION, YOU CAN 1643 01:21:18,573 --> 01:21:22,177 CHECK OUT THE URLs YOU SEE ON 1644 01:21:22,177 --> 01:21:23,078 THE SCREEN. 1645 01:21:23,078 --> 01:21:25,513 JIM GREEN TOLD YOU ABOUT THE E 1646 01:21:25,513 --> 01:21:27,415 BOOKS, SOME OF THE MOST 1647 01:21:27,415 --> 01:21:29,751 MEMORABLE GIFTS FROM CASSINI ARE 1648 01:21:29,751 --> 01:21:33,388 THOSE SPECTACULAR IMAGES. 1649 01:21:33,388 --> 01:21:35,523 AN E BOOK HAS BEEN MADE, AND YOU 1650 01:21:35,523 --> 01:21:36,858 CAN FIND IT BY GOING TO THAT 1651 01:21:36,858 --> 01:21:41,930 LINK YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN. 1652 01:21:41,930 --> 01:21:44,666 BEFORE WE GO, A PARTING LOOK AT 1653 01:21:44,666 --> 01:21:48,903 THE DSN NOW IMAGE, THE DISPLAY 1654 01:21:48,903 --> 01:21:54,075 YOU SEE THERE. 1655 01:21:54,075 --> 01:21:56,478 IT'S NOW DARK AND COMMUNICATION 1656 01:21:56,478 --> 01:21:58,113 WITH THE SPACECRAFT IS NOW 1657 01:21:58,113 --> 01:21:58,546 SILENT.