{"id":14320,"date":"2017-05-04T00:55:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2017-05-04T00:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:55:54","slug":"video-cassini-films-saturns-surface-during-first-dive-between-rings-and-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14320","title":{"rendered":"Video: Cassini films Saturn&#8217;s surface during first dive between rings and planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Images taken by the <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cassini spacecraft<\/a> as it flew between the surface of Saturn and the innermost ring have now been released. The video below\u00a0starts with the sequence of images of Saturn&#8217;s surface and then shows an animation of where the spacecraft was moving and the view that it had of \u00a0the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/jpl\/new-movie-shows-cassinis-first-dive-over-saturn\" target=\"_d\">New Movie Shows Cassini&#8217;s First Dive over Saturn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LBLCgCYy0I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>As NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft made its first-ever dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017, one of its imaging cameras took a series of rapid-fire images that were used to make this movie sequence. The video begins with a view of the vortex at Saturn&#8217;s north pole, then heads past the outer boundary of the planet&#8217;s hexagon-shaped jet stream and continues further southward.\u00a0Credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute\/Hampton University\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=pia21441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See movie sequence<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<p>A new movie sequence of images from NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft shows the view as the spacecraft swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings on April 26.<\/p>\n<p>The movie comprises one hour of observations as the spacecraft moved southward over Saturn. It begins with a view of the swirling vortex at the planet&#8217;s north pole, then heads past the outer boundary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/catalog\/PIA18274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hexagon-shaped jet stream<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;I was surprised to see so many sharp edges along the hexagon&#8217;s outer boundary and the eye-wall of the polar vortex,&#8221; said Kunio Sayanagi, an associate of the Cassini imaging team based at Hampton University in Virginia, who helped produce the new movie. &#8220;Something must be keeping different latitudes from mixing to maintain those edges,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the movie, the camera frame rotates as the spacecraft reorients to point its large, saucer-shaped antenna in the direction of the spacecraft\u2019s motion. The antenna was used as a protective shield during the crossing of Saturn\u2019s ring plane.<\/p>\n<p>As the movie frames were captured, the Cassini spacecraft&#8217;s altitude above the clouds dropped from 45,000 to 4,200 miles (72,400 to 6,700 kilometers). As this occurred, the smallest resolvable features in the atmosphere changed from 5.4 miles (8.7 kilometers) per pixel to 0.5 mile (810 meters) per pixel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;The images from the first pass were great, but we were conservative with the camera settings. We plan to make updates to our observations for a similar opportunity on June 28 that we think will result in even better views,&#8221; said Andrew Ingersoll, a member of the Cassini imaging team based at Caltech in Pasadena, California.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for the agency&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the Caltech in Pasadena. The Cassini imaging operations center is based at Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Cassini, visit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cassini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cassini<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=primegift&amp;banner=10BSGCHPCJG0HZN45H82&amp;f=ifr&amp;lc=pf4&amp;linkID=LAMTCOYAXGZKVLOL\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it flew between the surface of Saturn and the innermost ring have now been released. The video below\u00a0starts with the sequence of images of Saturn&#8217;s surface and then shows an animation of where the spacecraft was moving and the view that it had of \u00a0the planet. New Movie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Cassini films Saturn&#8217;s surface during first dive between rings and planet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-al","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3IY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14286,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14286","url_meta":{"origin":14320,"position":0},"title":"Video: Cassini flies between Saturn and its rings for first time","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cassini spacecraft survived its first pass through the gap between Saturn and its rings: NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/BQmTdYPVJxM NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=87"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/main_w001063601.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14274","url_meta":{"origin":14320,"position":1},"title":"Video: A 360-degree view of Cassini diving between Saturn and the rings","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This interactive video from NASA JPL allows you to scan Saturn and the rings as the Cassini spacecraft makes one of its dives\u00a0between the two before the\u00a0Grand Finale\u00a0in September. 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