The images taken from the $ 3 billion spacecraft are about to explode

After 13 years of flying around Saturn and capturing beautiful images, NASA's $ 3 billion Cassini spacecraft will enter the planet's atmosphere and explode.

After two decades floating in space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will officially end its mission on September 15.Cassini will continue to send data to Earth before entering Saturn's atmosphere and burning.

The image was taken at the end of November 2010 with the shadow of Enceladus sat down.NASA's more than $ 3 billion spacecraft is expected to lose contact with the Earth at 11:54 (GMT) on September 15.Along the way, it will collect the final data to answer important questions about Saturn, the mysterious storms, the harsh atmosphere, the age of the belts and the length of a day.

Images of beautiful color bands are recorded while Cassini ships close to Saturn's belt.This is the largest belt in the Solar System, containing countless types of particles, concentrated into dust around Saturn.Recent data from Cassini brought many unexpected discoveries to scientists, helping them to conclude that Saturn's luminous belt formed after 120 million years compared to the initial calculation.

The image of the northernmost region of Saturn shows the aurora phenomenon of the planet's atmosphere.Earlier, the unmanned probe Cassini, the result of cooperation between the US and Italian aviation authorities, was launched on October 15, 1997 and reached Saturn's orbit in 2004, after implementation. Journey through Venus and Jupiter.

Since then, Cassini has been flying around Saturn to photograph its surface, helping astronomers better understand the planet's atmosphere, magnetosphere and satellites.In the picture, three Saturnian moons appear in one picture.Tethys at the top.Below, on the left is Minas, next to it is Enceladus.Saturn has 62 natural satellites, and only 53 of these have been named.

Saturn's Daphnis satellite is hidden outside the perimeter.In April, NASA said it had found new evidence that the most likely place to find life outside of Earth is Saturn's Enceladus satellite.With a giant spectrometer, the Cassini probe revolving around Saturn since 2004 has detected the presence of hydrogen in material columns spraying up from Enceladus' frozen surface.

One of the rarest images recorded images of Saturn, the luminous belt and the Earth.About 1.5 billion km from Saturn, Earth is a small blue light in the picture.

Realizing that Cassini's fuel was about to run out, NASA decided to let it "drop" to Saturn in order to avoid colliding with Titan and Enceladus satellites, where life is beyond potential.

Image of a storm in the North Pole of Saturn.