“It’s like getting a whole new mission,” she said. “The scientific value of the F ring and Grand Finale orbits is so compelling that you could imagine a whole mission to Saturn designed around what we’re about to do.”
Cassini’s death mission officially begun on November 2016, with a series of ring grazing orbits.
During these obits, Cassini approached Saturn’s F ring within 4,850 miles (7,800 km), giving NASA an unprecedented close look at them.
The scientist explained: “The last time we got this close to the rings was during arrival at Saturn in 2004, and we saw only their backlit side.
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