First images of Cassini from the new orbit

Cassini at the end of November began the last phase of its 19-year missionóThe mission will be completed next year. We wrote about its planned course in an earlier article.

The new images released by NASA were taken on December 2 and 3. But this is just the beginning of the cosmic spectacle. More photos of Saturn's rings and moons orbiting in this region will be available soon.

Photographs sent back by the probe show an interesting hexagonal shape on the Earth's surfaceóThe northern pole of the planet.

Photo. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The collage above was taken in fouróand different spectral filters. Each of them is sensitive to róThis is why one of the Martian rovers has a hexagonal storm on Saturnóat different altitudes. A puzzling hexagon that spans more than 30,000. kilometerów, is a jet stream flowing through Saturn's atmosphere, but scientists can't say anything more about it, although it was first photographed by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s. Last century.

Photo. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The Cassini probe also took a close-up shot of a storm over the póNORTH PóSaturn's sphere. On this photograph, we also see part of a mysterious hexagon.