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Here's the video of NASA's epic dive through Saturn's gap
« on: May 08, 2017, 11:22:07 am »
Here's the video of NASA's epic dive through Saturn's gap

Cassini's first foray into the space between Saturn and its rings
By Sarah Fecht May 4, 2017
 

A clip from Cassini's dive through uncharted territory on April 26, 2017.
 

Last week, the Cassini spacecraft made its first dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings. It sent home some pretty spectacular pictures, and now NASA has stitched them together into a video. Behold:
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It starts at the 1,250-mile-wide vortex at Saturn’s north pole, where winds whip around at about 330 miles per hour. Then it scans down past the edge of the giant and mysterious hexagon that surrounds the vortex. Scientists aren’t sure how this sharp shape takes form, but each side of the hexagon is longer than the Earth’s diameter. All those bright swirls are storms.

http://www.popsci.com/nasa-cassini-video-epic-dive-saturns-gap
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