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Ring Crossing (Illustration)

Color illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and its innermost ring.
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: April 7, 2017

In the still from the short film Cassini's Grand Finale, the spacecraft is shown diving between Saturn and the planet's innermost ring.

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