Cassini - Dive! Dive! Dive!

Wow - as I'm typing this, Cassini is 3 minutes from diving through Saturn's rings.  It will be using it's high gain antenna as a 'shield'.

This will be really interesting.

Also, the NASA team recently released this awesome photo of Earth and the Moon taken through the gap in Saturn's rings.  Beautiful and so awesome.

10 seconds to Dive.

Cassini just tweeted - "...instruments are on, but we're out of contact with Earth. Here we gooooooo!"

This is cool, but I'm going to miss Cassini and the amazing images and science it has produced.