Wow! Cassini's Bird's-Eye View of Saturn Plunge Astonishes in New Video

An amazing new video shows just what NASA's Cassini spacecraft saw during its first "Grand Finale" plunge between Saturn's cloud tops and the gas giant's rings last week. The new Saturn dive video captures about an hour of Cassini observations on April 26, starting near the planet's north polar vortex, and the bizarre hexagonal jet stream that surrounds it, and heading south from there. "I was surprised to see so many sharp edges along the hexagon's outer boundary and the eye-wall of the polar vortex," Cassini imaging team associate Kunio Sayanagi, who's based at Hampton University in Virginia, said in a statement.