Cassini

The Cassini spacecraft has sent back beautiful images of the planet Saturn, like this one:




This is Saturn as viewed from behind, looking toward the sun. Great, eh? For more images, click here.

Cassini's vogage is to end in 2012. That's the schedule for the end of its current mission around Saturn. NASA folks and others are debating what to do with Cassini after that time. Whatever they do, I hope Cassini continues to send back beautiful images of the solar system until her nuclear batteries give out.