Cassini's final image of Saturn shows the spot where it was doomed to die

Just before Cassini was vaporized while falling through the extreme pressure of Saturn's clouds, the bus-sized spacecraft beamed home an image of the spot where it would meet its fate. 

The photo is by no means the best ever taken by Cassini — that's an incredibly tall order given the gorgeous photos the spacecraft has produced over the years — but it does have a poignancy that other images of Saturn do not. 

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