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11-22-2017, 01:42 PM
NASA says goodbye to Saturn with dramatic new photo
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NASA is saying goodbye to Saturn with a newly-processed photo of the ringed planet taken during the last day of the Cassini mission.*
The photo shows Saturn in all its sunlit glory, glowing gold against the blackness of space.*
Cassini snapped the series of images that were stitched together to create this photo on September 13 before making its plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, destroying the spacecraft in the process.
SEE ALSO: Saturn's strange hexagon stands out in new photo of the ringed planet (http://mashable.com/2017/02/27/saturn-hexagon-cassini-photo/)
The space probe had been exploring Saturn and its many moons since 2004, and we have no other spacecraft dedicated to studying the huge world today.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/21/saturn-cassini-photo-nasa-goodbye/)
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NASA is saying goodbye to Saturn with a newly-processed photo of the ringed planet taken during the last day of the Cassini mission.*
The photo shows Saturn in all its sunlit glory, glowing gold against the blackness of space.*
Cassini snapped the series of images that were stitched together to create this photo on September 13 before making its plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, destroying the spacecraft in the process.
SEE ALSO: Saturn's strange hexagon stands out in new photo of the ringed planet (http://mashable.com/2017/02/27/saturn-hexagon-cassini-photo/)
The space probe had been exploring Saturn and its many moons since 2004, and we have no other spacecraft dedicated to studying the huge world today.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/21/saturn-cassini-photo-nasa-goodbye/)
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