The Big Picture: Saturn at Equinox

An amazing set of photographs from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft:

Cassini continues to orbit Saturn, part of its extended Equinox Mission, funded through through September 2010. A proposal for a further extension is under consideration, one that would keep Cassini in orbit until 2017, ending with a spectacular series of orbits inside the rings followed by a suicide plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017.

Posted Friday, October 23rd, at 9:00 PM (∞).