LOS ANGELES Wholesale Nike VaporMax China , Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- After a 13-year tour of Saturn, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of the ringed planet early Friday morning, ending the mission just one month shy of its 20th launch anniversary.


"Earth received @CassiniSaturn's final signal at 7:55 a.m. ET (1155 GMT). Cassini is now part of the planet it studied," Cassini's team said on Twitter Friday morning.


The last signal was received by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna complex in Canberra, Australia.


Head of spacecraft operations Julie Webster called "loss of signal," followed by Project Manager Earl Maize announcing "end of mission" as the spacecraft began to break up in Saturn's atmosphere.


"Congratulations to you all Wholesale Nike VaporMax 2019 ," Maize told the team. "It's been an incredible mission, incredible spacecraft, and you are an incredible team."