Until Cassini's arrival at Saturn in 2004, humanity had never viewed Saturn up close and personal. In all, Cassini has provided more than 453,000 pictures of Saturn, its rings and moons. The final snapshots will be coming down hours before the spacecraft's fiery finish on Friday, Sept. 15. Cassini will burn up like a meteor in Saturn's sky.
Cassini's Amazing Photos of Saturn, Rings & Moons
![The Cassini spacecraft has captured the first detailed images of a giant hurricane on Saturn.](https://gdb.voanews.com/5a0a4bbe-2ca8-4ece-aed2-4802df494bf3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Cassini spacecraft has captured the first detailed images of a giant hurricane on Saturn.
![This Aug. 23, 2014 image made available by NASA shows the fluid dynamics in Saturn's uppermost cloud layers.](https://gdb.voanews.com/6c71f72f-cf99-49ae-8b6d-9380e27a0895_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This Aug. 23, 2014 image made available by NASA shows the fluid dynamics in Saturn's uppermost cloud layers.
![The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora appear together in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means that it lacks sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape like its larger sibling, Mimas. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)](https://gdb.voanews.com/a441e477-a350-4b98-af4e-91df7b4ca58c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora appear together in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means that it lacks sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape like its larger sibling, Mimas. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
![Enceladus, one of moons of Saturn, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (NASA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/8e9c5120-a974-4c36-944c-faf48c1269ca_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Enceladus, one of moons of Saturn, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (NASA)