Sailing high above Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recently made this sweeping portrait of the icy rings that girdle the planet.
to watch a movie showing Cassini’s varying perspectives of the rings as it flies from south to north, crossing the ring plane. Space Science Institute, JPL/NASA
Space Science Institute, JPL/NASA
Space Science Institute, JPL/NASA
“It’s a view that no human has had before, nor a spacecraft,” says Cassini scientist Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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