14 DAY TRIAL // NASA has released a brand new photograph of the magnificent Saturn and its rings as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.
The new picture offers a view that will take the breath away to all astronomy lovers, thanks to all the details.
The image was taken on June 15, 2013, NASA says using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light.
The spacecraft was some 657,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) from Saturn when it took the image that has a scale of some 37 miles (60 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a result of the cooperation between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997 and entered Saturn’s orbit in mid-2004. Scientists calculate that Cassini will finally impact Saturn in 2017.