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Cassini will make the first of these five passes over Saturn at 12:22 am EDT Monday, August 14.
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As per NASA, the image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 31, 2017.
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 The image was part of a mosaic that included the planet's moon Daphnis (PIA17212).
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The rings themselves are made of fast-moving particles of ice and space debris.
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On April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT on April 22), the spacecraft passed at an altitude of about 608 miles (979 kilometers) above the surface of Saturn's moon, beginning its final set of 22 orbits around the ringed planet.
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During the first two orbits, the spacecraft will pass directly through an extremely faint ring produced by tiny meteors striking Saturn's two small moons Janus and Epimetheus.






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