Cassini’s Breathtaking Final Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Shapes in Saturn’s Rings

By Michelle Starr In its final year, Cassini plunged where no spacecraft had plunged before, down in the space between Saturn and its rings. Again and again it dove, for a total of 22 orbits. In the data collecting during those breakneck dives, astronomers have just found new information about the way tiny moons sculpt …