The Cassini spacecraft began on November 30, his last mission in the orbit of Saturn which will end in September 2017, when it is destroyed upon entering the atmosphere.
The NASA spacecraft Cassini has sent new photos of his most recent orbit around Saturn, as part of its mission of collecting all possible information from the planet before entering the atmosphere and be destroyed.
Photographs. according to information From the BBC, the new photographs taken by the spacecraft show the strange storm hex that exists in the northern hemisphere of Saturn in addition to pictures close to the inner rings of the planet.
Mission. The ship began the last November 30 its stage of approximation of the rings of the planet, which will be in 20 orbits in which the spacecraft reaches the boundary of the main rings of Saturn.
NASA Scientists commented that thanks to this mission will be able to post in the future images that will be seen in greater detail, the rings of the planet as well as the small moons that orbit it.
Expectation. Also in charge of the processing of the images captured by the spacecraft, Carolyn Little, he described the experience as an adventure on a magnificent planet. "This concludes our whole adventure, it is the beginning of the end of our historical exploration of Saturn".
scientists have predicted that Cassini will perform its last dive into the atmosphere of Saturn the next 15 of September of 2017, and then send the collected data to the Earth, to end up disintegrated.
Achievements. This spacecraft was launched in 1997 and arrived at its destination in 2004. Its main mission was to study the rings, the moons, and the heavy atmosphere of Saturn. The data sent have been crucial for arriving at conclusions as to the existence of an ocean in underground Enceladus, one of moons of Saturn, that might harbor life, and the presence of seas of liquid methane on Titan.
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