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March 16, 2011
Cassini approaches Saturn
From Outside In, an IMAX film in production: "What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship?"
In the last sequence, Saturn looms increasingly large on approach as cloudy Titan swoops below. With Saturn whirling around in the background, Cassini is next depicted flying over Mimas, with large Herschel Crater clearly visible. Saturn's majestic rings then take over the show as Cassini crosses Saturn's thin ring plane. Dark shadows of the ring appear on Saturn itself. Finally, the enigmatic ice-geyser moon Enceladus appears in the distance and then is approached just as the video clip ends.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 16, 2011 08:28 AM