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Cassini spacecraft at Saturn

author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Novapix

reference: e-son15-00035

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 11 cm

This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's Grand Finale. Cassini will make 22 orbits that swoop between the rings and the planet before ending its mission on Sept. 15, 2017, with a final plunge into Saturn.

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2017 - ASTRONOMY - CASSINI - ILLUSTRATION - PLANET - RING - SATURN - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -