As Saturn grows closer through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft, which is
hurtling toward a rendezvous with the ringed world in just more than a month,
both Cassini and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope have made new images
of the ringed planet.
Cassini is approaching Saturn at an oblique angle to the Sun and from below
the ecliptic plane (the plane in which planets orbit the Sun). Cassini has a
very different view of Saturn than Hubble's Earth-centered view.
For the first time, astronomers can compare views of similar sharpness of Saturn
from two very different perspectives. And so can you. Expect ever-better views
of Saturn to emerge as Cassini closes in.
Credit: NASA/STScI/Hubble/Cassini
