Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a stunning image that shows a sliver of

Saturn's sunlit atmosphere

with its icy rings stretched across the foreground as a dark band. The Cassini
mission is currently executing
a series of daring ring-grazing dives as the mission comes closer to the
culmination of its epic 20-year-long
journey in space. The new image captures the unilluminated side of the rings from
about seven degrees below the
ring plane. The image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-
angle camera on March 31. The
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By Colombia The view was obtained at a distance of about one million kilometers
from Saturn. After executing 22
dives between the planet's icy rings, the spacecraft will plunge into Saturn's
atmosphere. Latest CommentFake
picturesSiddharth The finale orbits bring the spacecraft closer to Saturn than ever
before, providing stunning,
high-resolution images and new insights into the planet's interior structure and
the origins of the rings, Nasa
said. During its final plunge into Saturn, Cassini will send data about the
atmosphere's composition until its
signal is lost.