NASA has released a movie sequence created from raw images captured by the Cassini spacecraft as the probe plunged from high above Saturn's north pole, down towards the "big empty" separating the planet's upper atmosphere and iconic ring system. The images featured in the video represent only one hour of Cassini's dramatic journey, which saw the probe fly within 1,900 miles (3,000 km) of Saturn's cloud tops – the closest any spacecraft has ever come to the gas giant's atmosphere.
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