29.11.2016 - 02:21 [ The Verge ]

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is getting ready to skim Saturn’s rings

After 12 years of touring the Saturn system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about to enter a new orbit — one that will take the probe up close to the planet’s famous rings. These Ring-Grazing Orbits, as NASA is calling them, will bring Cassini within nearly 5,000 miles of Saturn’s F ring, which marks the border of the main ring system.