Saturn Probe Dives Past Rings for 1st Time
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 07:31
in Astronomy & Space
Cassini zoomed within 57,000 miles (91,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops on Sunday morning, plunging through the planet's ring plane at about the spot where a faint ring generated by the small moons Janus and Epimetheus lies.