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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale


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Saturn rings sunlit horizon

This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon, where a thin haze can be seen along the limb.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic field has no discernible tilt.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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