NASA intentionally crashed the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn in 2017 to prevent potential contamination of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan, which could have disrupted the search for extraterrestrial life in their subsurface oceans.
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Cassini spent 13 years mapping Saturn, then dove into its atmosphere to protect its moons. ScientistAdded:
The Cassini spacecraft spent 13 years orbiting Saturn. It discovered geysers [music] on Enceladus. It mapped Titan.
It flew through Saturn's rings. It sent back 450,000 images. Then in September 2017, NASA crashed it into Saturn on purpose. Why? Because Cassini was running out of fuel. An uncontrolled spacecraft [music] could contaminate Enceladus or Titan, potentially disrupting the search for life in their oceans. We destroyed [music] a working spacecraft to protect alien oceans. That's how seriously we take the possibility that life exists there.
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