Cassini Nears Its First Encounter With a Moon of Saturn

Credit: NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Saturn is looming in the headlights of the Cassini spacecraft, which has gotten so close that its narrow-field camera can no longer fit the entire planet and its famous rings in a single frame. The NASA probe sent back this final whole-Saturn image on Mar. 27 and is now closing in on Phoebe, the...

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