NASA : Up and Over.- Arriba y por encima

Hola mis amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., Cassini en órbita alrededor de plano de los anillos de Saturno - alrededor del ecuador del planeta - la mayor parte de 2015. Esto permitió una temporada de sobrevuelos de las lunas heladas del planeta, pero no permitió puntos de vista en ángulo de los anillos y los polos del planeta, como éste. Sin embargo, a principios de 2016, la nave espacial comenzó a aumentar su inclinación orbital, subiendo más sobre los polos en preparación para las órbitas finales espectaculares de la misión en 2017.
Esta vista se dirige hacia el lado iluminado de los anillos desde unos 16 grados por encima del plano de los anillos. La imagen fue tomada con la cámara de gran angular de la Cassini el 26 de febrero el año 2016 usando un filtro espectral que preferentemente se admite longitudes de onda de luz casi infrarroja centrada en 752 nanómetros................."

More information.............

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20481/up-and-over

Cassini orbited in Saturn's ring plane -- around the planet's equator -- for most of 2015. This enabled a season of flybys of the planet's icy moons, but did not allow for angled views of the rings and the planet's poles, like this one. But in early 2016, the spacecraft began to increase its orbital inclination, climbing higher over the poles in preparation for the mission's final spectacular orbits in 2017.

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 16 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 26 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.7 million miles (2.8 million kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 103 miles (165 kilometers) per pixel.

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

and

http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.

The Cassini imaging team homepage is at

http://ciclops.org.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Last Updated: May 23, 2016

Editor: Tony Greicius

Tags: Cassini, Image of the Day, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Saturn, Solar System,

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Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui