Credit & Copyright: Cassini Imaging Team,
ISS,
JPL,
ESA,
NASA,
S. Van Vuuren et al.;
Music: Adagio for Strings (NY Philharmonic)
Explanation:
What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship?
One doesn't have to just imagine -- the
Cassini spacecraft
did just this in 2004, recording thousands of images along the way, and
thousands more since entering
orbit.
Recently, some of these images have been digitally tweaked, cropped, and compiled
into the
above inspiring video which is part of a
larger developing
IMAX movie project named
Outside In.
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.
Music: Adagio for Strings (NY Philharmonic)
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