Kotaku. Its cake versus ice cream for Splatoon 2s first Splatfest and were streaming all the fun live on our Twitch channel. Come and join the mayhem You can watch a saved recording of the stream below. Cassini Is Gone and Im Not Crying Youre Crying. After a 2. 0 year sojourn in the final frontier, at approximately 5 0. AM PT this morning, NASAs Jet Propulsion laboratory lost contact with the Cassini spacecraft, which had plunged into Saturns atmosphere about an hour and a half prior, ending its 1. Saturn system. Maybe a trickle of telemetry left, but we just heard the signal from the spacecraft is gone, and within the next 4. I hope youre all deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment, a project manager at JPL announced moments ago. Im going to call this the end of mission. Cassinis date with death had been planned for months. The spacecraft only has a few drops of fuel left, and rather than risk allowing a dead hunk of metal to crash into one of Saturns potentially life harboring moons, NASA decided to send its beloved spacecraft into the object of its decade plus exploration. It beamed back data until it couldnt anymore. In the hours leading up to its fiery demise, Cassini also sent back a final batch of images, captured in the last days of its mission. These are Cassinis swansong. Ad astra per aspera, Cassini. We wont forget about you. Get the latest breaking news across the U. S. on ABCNews. com.
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