Cassini Stared Into Saturn's Polar Abyss, and It's Creepy As Hell. As Cassini’s tour of Saturn comes to a close, NASA’s getting a bit nostalgic.
Yesterday, the space agency released a photo of Saturn’s North pole the doomed spacecraft took on April 2. Grand Finale. It’s almost poetic to have a photo of Cassini staring into the void before it perishes within it. According to NASA, Cassini snapped the picture when it was hovering 1. Saturn. The planet’s North pole is notorious for the 1,2.
Cassini has photographed many times. The hexagonal jet stream surrounding that monster cyclone creates a unique visual that’s absolutely haunting at any vantage point. Here’s that Cassini image in full: For context, here’s that hexagonal storm in color filters: Cassini has only three orbits left in its 2. On its final dive on September 1.
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Saturn’s atmosphere with its antenna pointing toward Earth, transmitting everything it can until the atmosphere overpowers it. So long and thanks for all the pics, Cassini. Apple Hd Movies Only The Brave (2017) here.
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