NASA Saturn Mission Prepares for 'Ring-Grazing Orbits'

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Close Views Show Saturn's Rings in Unprecedented Detail

Moon Waves and Moon Wakes

The Propeller Belts in Saturn's A Ring

Saturn's B Ring, Finer Than Ever

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Ring-Grazing Orbit No. 10

During Cassini’s tenth ring-grazing orbit, the spacecraft’s radar instrument will perform two observations of Saturn’s rings. For nearly two hours, when Cassini is in the segment of its orbit in which it is nearest Saturn, the radar will bounce signals off Saturn’s rings like a flash camera but with radio wavelengths of light instead of visible wavelengths. Radar scientists will use data from the observation to produce the first high-resolution radar image of Saturn’s rings.

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Brand new, unprocessed views of Saturn's moons Epimetheus and Mimas

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Saturn's rings could contain millions of 'moonlets', new Nasa images reveal

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Next Event: Ring-Grazing Orbit No. 11 (Current Orbit: 261)

In this ring-grazing orbit, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS), along with Cassini’s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) and Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), will study the structure and composition of Saturn’s upper atmosphere, including how hydrocarbons are distributed vertically. The VIMS instrument will also produce a mosaic map of Saturn’s north pole by staring at the northern hemisphere for 10 hours.

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