NASA’s Cassini bears witness to spectacular Saturn
We often say or hear people wishing if we could have more hours than 24 in a day. Visualise yourself at Saturn having just 10.5 hours each day. What could you accomplish? Now does that make you feel that Earth is a better and much productive place to live in?
To our good future, the questions of timing, changes and motions have been answered by the scientists at NASA when they sent their agent spacecraft, Cassini, who sat patiently on the rings of Saturn and detected every minute movement of the big guy.
Cassini was sent in April 2016 and a few months later, in September, it emitted a huge chunk of impressive information. And now the spacecraft is moving towards the final phase of the mission until April 2017.
The video shared by NASA showed the four Saturn days covered in two minutes for us to observe the silent changes of the enormous planetoid. The video witnessed remarkable jet streams at its north pole which somehow create a hexagon. To our surprise, each side of the hexagon is slightly greater than our Earth. The statistics about the planet's size are rather startling.
The dull coloured and reiterated ball with rings also allow us to love our lively and colourful planet all the more. Despite nothing attractive in the planet, it still captivated our attention towards itself through its stark but artistic imperfect craters and more than popular rings.
Interestingly, Cassini also captured the methane clouds arising on the planet's one of the biggest moons, Titan. Along with it, the presence of hydrocarbon lakes and seas were also visible.
The video by NASA shows the planet from quite nearby. Cassini has managed to capture even the nearly microscopic gaseous rings around the planet and the diminutive storms that move across the surface from time to time.
Cassini will soon dive between the rings and the planet and hopefully give us closer awe-inspiring pictures. Hence, we can look forward to Cassini having closer moments with the planet in the coming times.
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