Update | NASA's Cassini spacecraft is in the throes of death, but 20-year-
The old task was to bang out.
The Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for the past 13 years, providing astronomers with unprecedented insight into the sixth planet from the sun in the solar system.
This now includes an interior.
Look at Saturn's aura from 1,500-mile-
The vast space between the ring and the planet itself, previously no spaceship ventured.
In a movie sequence released on Friday, NASA said the spacecraft took 21 photos in 4 minutes during a dive between the Earth and its ring in August 20.
Astronomers usually count eight major ring groups.
G around Saturn
Most of these rings consist of different sizes of ice and rock particles, some of which are as large as mountains.
According to NASA, the rings are about 3,200 feet thick and span up to 175,000 miles, about three quarters from the Earth and the moon.
"The entire main ring can be seen here, but because of the low viewing angle, the ring looks very short," said NASA of the film sequence . ".
A series of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's rings come from space between the rings and planets. NASA/JPL-
California Institute of Technology/Institute of Space Science "the perspective shifts from the sunny side of the aura to the unilluminated side of the sun.
On the sunny side, the gray C-ring looks bigger in the foreground as it is closer;
A little less than the bright B ring
A ring is lit, and there is a dividing line between them.
The F-ring is also easy to identify, "NASA said.
The Cassini Division is the largest of several gaps between Saturn's rings and measurements about 2,920 miles wide.
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A series of 22 tracks known as the "Finale" Enter the unexplored areas of the Saturn system.
The finale aims to reveal long-
Unanswered questions
Like the length of Saturn's day-
Samples of Saturn's upper atmosphere. The $3.
2 billion mission fuel is insufficient and will end on September 15, when the Cassini will fall into Saturn's atmosphere and burn down.
The Cassini is a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, and has made many major discoveries in its mission.
On April, the spacecraft showed that the ocean of Titan was releasing hydrogen, a cold satellite.
Since hydrogen is an energy source for some microorganisms, this finding means that enklatos is a major candidate for finding signs of life elsewhere in the solar system.
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