Before its mission ended in September 2017, NASA's Cassini probe conducted a series of dives between Saturn's cloud tops and its rings.
Scientists have revealed fascinating details about Saturn's rings in a study which documents some of the closest ever observations of these majestic features.
Before it met its fiery end, Cassini made the closest ever flybys of Saturn, taking measurements with four different instruments in the space between the planet's rings and its cloud tops during a series of more than 20"dives.
Cassini also snapped several images showing how tiny moons located within the rings, such as Daphnis, shape and influence the complex structures, creating strange wave-like patterns which have never been seen before. Furthermore, the Cassini data has revealed three distinct, newly identified textures—clumpy, smooth and streaky—in some regions of the ring system where there are belts of material with sharp edges, puzzling scientists. These textures appear to differ, even when they are found close together.
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