CASSINI SPACECRAFT

Image 1: This is a computer-rendered image of Cassini during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing. The spacecraft is moving out of the plane of the page and to the right (firing to reduce its spacecraft velocity with respect to Saturn) and has just crossed the ring plane. Image Credit: NASA/JPL More Information: Cassini home page Image 2: While cruising around Saturn in early October 2004, Cassini captured a series of images that have been composed into the largest, most detailed, global natural color view of Saturn and its rings ever made. (2005) Image Credit: NASA/JPL More Information: JPL home page