Cassini Preps For Death Plunge Into Saturn And Sends Farewell Image Of Tiny Earth

As NASA’s amazing Cassini spacecraft takes on technological death-defying feats months before it goes into a final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, it continues to transmit images back to Earth of things never seen before this close to a giant planet. This week Cassini flew through the relatively short 1,500-mile gap that separates Saturn’s enormously intricate ring systemfrom the top of the planet’s atmosphere, transmitting precious data back to Earthbound scientists. Cassini also this ...