> Insulating gold-colored blankets will char and break off first, followed by Cassini's antenna, 30-foot-long magnetometer boom, and other loose or fragile part

> Insulating gold-colored blankets will char and break off first, followed by Cassini's antenna, 30-foot-long magnetometer boom, and other loose or fragile parts. Carbon blocks full of plutonium-238 fuel will last the longest. > "It will basically disintegrate ... long before we hit any real surface of Saturn," Webster said. http://www.businessinsider.com/time-cassini-will-be-destroyed-timeline-2017-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/time-cassini-will-be-destroye... Sounds like an explosive goodbye ;)