The long space journey for a failed Soviet Venus lands is over. After circulating our globe for over 50 years, the Cosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth on Saturday.

According to Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos, Reentry took place over the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, around 02:24 one (0624GMT or 9:24 am Moscow time). It seems that the cosmos 482 fell into the sea without causing any damage.

But it is only an estimate; Other tracking groups and aerospace agencies projected recycling points ranging from the East Pacific to the South Asian Peninsula. We do not know if or when we find out where the cosmos 482 went down.

When Kosmos 482 sailed over Rome, Italy just before Daggry on May 10, astronomer Gianluca Masi caught from the virtual telescope project a picture of the spacecraft during one of its last orbit.

“Visible as a path that enters the field of view from the top and pointed to the lower right corner,” Masi said on his website, the probe is clear in the picture. “The picture is the sum of four images, that’s why the track of Cosmos 482 looks dotted.”

The planet that the Cosmos 482 was intended to settle is not the earth. The spacecraft was part of the Soviet Union’s Venera program, which in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s sent a fleet of probes to Venus.

In 1972, Kosmos 482 started against the Earth’s swelling sister planet, but a rocket failure left the spacecraft that was stuck in an elliptical trajectory around the planet. The probe was gradually pulled down by atmospheric features over the following 53 years, culminating with the spectacular conclusion of today.

During their burning journeys back to the ground, most of the large pieces of rump pass, such as used rocket bodies and dilapidated satellites, break from each other and produce man -made meteor showers.