Cassini spacecraft , illustration - Ilustración de stock

Illustration of the Cassini spacecraft. The Cassini spacecraft launched from Earth in 1997. It arrived at Saturn in 2004, spending the next 13 years surveying the Saturnian system (planet, moons and rings). It returned many images and observations, making many new discoveries. Its mission ended with a final dive to destruction in Saturn's atmosphere on 15 September 2017.