The Great Crossing

This life-like movie sequence captures Saturn's rings during a ring plane crossing--which Cassini makes twice per orbit--from the spacecraft's point of view. The movie begins with a view of the sunlit side of the rings. As the spacecraft speeds from south to north, the rings appear to tilt downward and collapse to a thin plane, and then open again to reveal the un-illuminated side of the ring plane, where sunlight filters through only dimly.

more at:
http://pds-rings.seti.org/saturn/cassini-videos/videoID147.html

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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