NASA’s Cassini spacecraft just sent the first images from its new orbit around Saturn

After 20 years of traveling through space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is taking a close look at Saturn before plunging into the planet in September 2017. And it’s finally sending us some of its first pictures back.
The final stretch of Cassini’s mission will allow us to learn more about the particles and gas molecules that linger near Saturn’s rings. Cassini began its new mission phase on November 30th, which NASA calls Ring-Grazing Orbits. Twenty of these weeklong orbits