16 Sep 2017

Adios, Cassini

From This Way Up, 12:45 pm on 16 September 2017
Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Photo: NASA

It's time to farewell Cassini, the unmanned spacecraft that revealed so much about Saturn and her moons.

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