Images were obtained from a distance of about a million kilometers
The probe “Cassini” received pictures of Saturn at the time of the rising of the Sun, whose rays had just begun to illuminate the rings of a giant planet and the tops of its clouds.
Pictures “sunrise” on Saturn was during one of the last “dives” of the probe through the rings of a giant planet at the end of March this year, when the science team Cassini was preparing for the final phase of the probe “the finale of the Opera”.
These images were obtained from a distance of about a million kilometres of the upper cloud layer of the giant planet, at a time when the Sun was just beginning to touch the surface and the upper edge of the rings.
Such “illumination” ring the morning Sun, as they say NASA experts, can be considered a multilayer structure and see all the gaps between the individual rings.
