Cassini's Last Snapshot Before The Mission Kills Himself

In the final seconds, the NASA-controlled Cassini camera from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captures the atmospheric layers on Saturn's stunning night's sides.

NASA explained that Cassini took the picture before plunging into the planet Saturn on September 14, 2017. The image is photographed from a distance of 634,000 kilometers and under the hydrogen pressure that is in the planet's atmosphere.

As a result, Saturn's atmosphere that is colored sepia or dark brown is illuminated by sunlight that bounces on ice particles in the planet's rings.

The Cassini spacecraft has been circling Saturn for over 13 years and has high flying hours to circle many celestial bodies on Saturn, including Titan's largest moon, Encaladus moon, and more.

However, NASA finally decided to end Cassini's mission a year ago on September 15, 2017 by crashing the spacecraft to the planet Saturn.

This decision was taken because the scientists wanted to make sure Cassini was still in control until the final seconds of his mission, and did not hit a moon that might be inhabited by many microbes, namely Titan or Enceladus.

Until now, scientists are still analyzing the latest data from Cassini's mission about the mass of planetary rings of Saturn that can tell us about its age and origin.

The Cassini instrument also made radio measurements in the upper atmosphere of Saturn until the end of its mission on September 15, 2017.

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