Cassini spacecraft to dive inside Saturn's rings for mission finaleREUTERS NASA is preparing to send its long-lived Cassini probe into the unexplored region between Saturn and its rings the spacecraft's suicidal plunge into the planet. NASA An image of Saturn moon Mimas taken from NASA's Cassini spacecraftREAD MORE: Saturn's geyser-spouting moon Enceladus glowsBut before its demise, Cassini has one last mission. NASA/Newsmakers Second fiddle: The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, beside Jupiter, in a picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 3, 2000. NASA is hoping Cassini will survive long enough for 22 dives inside the rings, revealing details about the their age and composition. NASA NASA plans to crash the spacecraft, which is running out of fuel, into Saturn, in September.

Source: Stuff April 05, 2017 02:26 UTC