https://youtu.be/9LBLCgCYy0I I can't help it — I'm just enchanted by the imagery coming back from Cassini as it has been swooping through the gap between Saturn and the giant planet's rings. The latest is the movie above, made from a sequence of rapid-fire images acquired by Cassini as it made its first dive on April 26th. From NASA's release about it today:
The movie comprises one hour of observations as the spacecraft moved southward over Saturn. It begins with a view of the swirling vortex at the planet's north pole, then heads past the outer boundary of the hexagon-shaped jet stream and beyond.
As Cassini captured the footage, it dropped from 45,000 to 4,200 miles above Saturn's cloud tops. As it zoomed along it got an ever sharper view of smaller and smaller features. At the beginning of the sequence, each pixel could resolve features no smaller than 5.4 miles ...
