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Cassini's imager plunges into the gap between Saturn and its rings, in the final phase of its 20-year mission in space. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Saturn's rings will disappear within 100 million years

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Image composited from raw Cassini spacecraft images taken from about 500,000 km from the Moon on May 7, 2017. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill.

New discoveries from Cassini: Titan's methane clouds and the propellers in Saturn's rings

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Cassini imaging during the dive between Saturn and its rings. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Cassini discovered that the space between Saturn and its rings is almost completely free of dust particles

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Cassini imaging during the dive between Saturn and its rings. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Cassini successfully completed its first dive between Saturn and its rings

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Cassini's last pass over Titan, which also caused a change in its trajectory and the expected dive below Saturn's rings. Image: NASA

The Cassini probe is diving between Saturn and its rings today

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Enlarged section of the photograph. Source: NASA / Image editing - Ph0705, wikimedia.

Daphnis, a moon of Saturn, revealed in a new Cassini image

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One of the new close-up photos taken by Cassini on December 18, 2016. This photo shows part of Cassini's A ring, the outer of its two large rings, and is approximately 134 km from the planet. The photo was taken from a distance of 56,000 km . On the left side of the image you can see the route known by NASA as "straw", caused by small clusters of the tiny ice particles that make up Saturn's rings. The straw itself is visible on top of waves in the ring, which are created by the gravitational influence of the moons Epimetheus and Janus. In the rest The image shows the gravitational "traces" of the moon Pan.Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Saturn's rings are revealed in unprecedented detail in new Cassini images

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Saturn's rings as photographed by the Cassini spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Cassini will approach the rings on the last mission before crashing into Saturn

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Left: An image of Saturn's rings as photographed by the Cassini spacecraft. Right: Image of the rings of Uranus as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo: NASA / JPL / STScI

Has the mystery of the formation of Saturn's rings been solved?

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Ring Superintendent - An artist's illustration of the ring system of a young giant or brown dwarf planet J1407b. The rings appear to cause a solar eclipse and hide the Sun-like but younger star J1407 as discovered in 2007. Illustration by Ron Miller for the University of Rochester

Rings in Super Saturn

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Saturn's moon Epimetheus as photographed on December 6, 2015 by the Cassini spacecraft. Photo: NASA

NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows: three moons of Saturn in one day

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The disturbance seen at the outer edge of Saturn's A ring in the image taken by the Cassini spacecraft may be an object that is a moon in the process of formation. Photo: NASA

Planet Saturn shows: Moon is born

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Photo PIA11669 - Cassini division (Cassini division) an area of ​​low density between ring A and ring B

Rings of Saturn - new discoveries

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An eighth and distant ring has been discovered on Saturn

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The naked Saturn

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Rings of Saturn - new findings

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A hitherto unknown moon of Saturn is responsible for the formation of one of the rings

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Half rings have been discovered around Saturn

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Saturn's rings have their own atmosphere

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