NASA announced the video has never been seen before about Saturn
NASA has just released images and videos recorded from the Cassini spacecraft, showing its risky moves.
At the end of last April, NASA's Cassini spacecraft began a series of rounds around Saturn and made dangerous flights slipping through the rings of the planet.
Many images have low resolution, the image is grainy, blurry and unclear, but that shows the turbulence of thunderstorm clouds over Saturn's atmosphere. No man-made device of humans dared to cross the distance so close to other planets.
Saturn's polar storm was taken by Cassini on April 26, edited in color by NASA scientists.(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Kevin M. Gill).
Jo Pitesky, a science engineer at the Cassini project at NASA's Jet Engine Laboratory (JPL), said: "As soon as the photos were sent, Cassini project scientists said they were "Looking at things they have never seen before. After nearly 13 years in orbit, new images of Saturn continue to surprise us."
The agency's JPL lab recently released a completely new video that shows exactly where, when, and how the spacecraft returns to unprecedented images in the first flight of the series. final.
When watching the video, viewers will visualize how Cassini ships to record images. At the end of the video, you'll see Cassini turn upside down to deflect dangerous dust particles from Saturn that might crash into the ship.
Flying Cassini from afar to record the image of Saturn's atmosphere.(Photo: NASA).
Linda Spilker, a Cassini project scientist, said: "In about half an hour or so after the ship reached the closest point of the planet, it turned on the antenna and brought it higher, like a giant shield. Giant, to protect the devices behind it ".
Another view in the video, from a distance to see the whole picture of Saturn, and the Cassini ship now is a red dot flying from the north pole to the south pole of the giant planet. The speed of the ship is now 123,600 km / h, 45 times faster than the bullet fired. Ships are difficult to capture clearly when traveling at this speed.
The far-sighted view shows that Cassini is a red dot gliding from the north pole to the southern tip of Saturn.(Photo: NASA).
These newly released images are only a small fraction of the data that NASA received from Cassini. Called the "Grand Finale," Cassini will fly 22 final laps around Saturn and collect as much data as possible about the planet and its perimeters.
The first rotation was made on April 26, the second round on May 2 and NASA received images from this second on May 3. At the end of 22 spins, the ship will self-destruct and then rush into the interior of Saturn's air on September 15.
This death has been calculated before, NASA does not want it to crash into Enceladus or Titan satellite, because it does not want to contaminate the environment here. These two satellites may have a liquid water ocean and have the potential to survive, NASA will study these two satellites in the future.
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