More than 53 years after a failed launch to Venus, a Soviet-era spacecraft stuck in orbit finally crashed back to Earth on Saturday, sinking into the Indian Ocean.

Its exact crash site hasn’t been determined, and scientists can’t confirm if any debris from the 1,000-pound spacecraft, named Kosmos 482, survived the crash before burning up in the atmosphere.

One scientist said, “If it crashed into the Indian Ocean, only the whales saw it.”

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