For Your Astronomers: 11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos in 3 hrs 48 min

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341,805 images taken by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) from the Saturn EDR Data Sets (Volumes 1-93). This includes all of Cassini's Photos from February 6, 2004 - September 15, 2015. Compiled and processed by The Wall Street Journal’s @JonKeegan.

 

NOTE: These raw, unedited sequences at times include rapid flashing. If you have photosensitive epilepsy, or a similar condition, this could trigger a physical reaction. Please use caution when watching this footage.

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Four Days at Saturn

 

 

NASA's Cassini spacecraft stared at Saturn for nearly 44 hours in April 2016 to obtain this movie showing four Saturn days.

 

Cassini will begin a series of dives between the planet and its rings in April 2017, building toward a dramatic end of mission -- a final plunge into the planet, six months later.

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Link: Close Views Show Saturn's Rings in Unprecedented Detail

 

 

This Cassini image features a density wave in Saturn's A ring (at left) that lies around 134,500 km from Saturn. Density waves are accumulations of particles at certain distances from the planet. This feature is filled with clumpy perturbations, which researchers informally refer to as "straw." The wave itself is created by the gravity of the moons Janus and Epimetheus, which share the same orbit around Saturn. Elsewhere, the scene is dominated by "wakes" from a recent pass of the ring moon Pan.

 

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Link: A Trip Around Saturn [25 photos: The Atlantic]

 

After nearly 13 years in orbit around Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is now preparing for its “Grand Finale.” In April of 2017, Cassini will begin a series of dives between the gas giant’s cloudtops and the inner rings—on its way to a fiery end when it burns up in Saturn's atmosphere on September 15. As scientists prepare for a new flood of never-before-seen images, a look back at some recent (and fairly recent) images of the Saturnian system taken by Cassini.

 

 

A view of Saturn's tiny, icy moon Mimas, taken on January 30, 2017. Mimas is about 246 miles wide (396 km)