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Cassini's First Fantastic Dive Past Saturn
May 03, 2017
This video was made using images from Cassini's first dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
Transcript:
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its first-ever dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017, one of its imaging cameras took a series of rapid-fire images that were used to make this movie sequence. The video begins with a view of the vortex at Saturn's north pole, then heads past the outer boundary of the planet's hexagon-shaped jet stream and continues further southward.
A detailed caption describing these video clips, and the unedited clips themselves, are available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21441. For more information about Cassini's Grand Finale, visit https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/grandfinale.
A detailed caption describing these video clips, and the unedited clips themselves, are available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21441. For more information about Cassini's Grand Finale, visit https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/grandfinale.