NASA's Cassini spacecraft has beamed back some stunning views of Saturn's rings, taken on June 4, as the probe sped through the 1,500-mile (2,400-km) gap separating the gas giant's uppermost cloud layers and innermost rings. With the seventh dive complete, Cassini is nearly a third of the way through the Grand Finale phase of its mission, the culmination of which will see the probe fly directly into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15.
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