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Originally Posted by But
I missed it. Was there an explosion animation or something?
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Originally Posted by JoeP
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But the final orbit and descent wasn't imaged and transmitted later, for obvious reasons, it was live streamed ... err ... communicated in real time ... at a massive 23 Kb/s or something.
It'll take them days or more to analyse all the final readings and tell us what happened up to the point Cassini could no longer keep its antenna pointed at Earth and started to tumble.
After that,
no one knows what happened to it. Saturnian gas jellyfish might have sent up a vehicle of their own to capture it, once they were sure we weren't watching.