Cassini Crossing a Faint Saturn Ring (Dec. 18, 2016)

This video represents data collected by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as it crossed the plane of Saturn's rings on Dec. 18, 2016. The instrument is able to record ring particles striking the spacecraft in its data. During this ring crossing, Cassini went through the faint, dusty ring that lies in the orbit shared by Saturnian moons Janus and Epimetheus. In this data there is a clearly audible and visible rise, peak, and fall in the number of pops and cracks that represent ring particles striking the spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa For more information, visit the news feature at www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6832 and the caption page at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia21446 .

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