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**Cassini Approaches Saturn**
==**Credit & Copyright:** [|Cassini Imaging Team], [|ISS], [|JPL], [|ESA], [|NASA], [|S. Van Vuuren] et al.;==

//Music:// [|Adagio for Strings] ([|NY Philharmonic])
==**Explanation:** What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship? One doesn't have to just imagine -- the [|Cassini spacecraft] did just this in 2004, recording thousands of images along the way, and [|thousands more] since entering orbit. Recently, some of these images have been digitally tweaked, cropped, and compiled into the [|above inspiring video] which is part of a larger developing [|IMAX] movie project named [|Outside In]. In the last sequence, Saturn looms increasingly large on approach as [|cloudy Titan] swoops below. With Saturn whirling around in the background, Cassini is next depicted flying over [|Mimas], with large [|Herschel Crater] clearly visible. Saturn's majestic rings then take over the show as Cassini crosses Saturn's [|thin ring] plane. Dark shadows of the ring appear on [|Saturn itself]. Finally, the enigmatic ice-geyser moon [|Enceladus] appears in the distance and then is approached just as the video clip ends.==