Movement of Enceladus ahead of Cassini's 'death dive'

NASA released a stunning ‘spacecraft’s eye’ view over Saturn’s moon Enceladus just 10 days before its Cassini mission comes to a dramatic end.

A new movie stitching together images captured by the craft’s narrow-angle camera offers a first-person perspective of the Aug 1 flyby, showing the relative motion of Cassini and the icy moon from about 112,000 miles (181,000 km) above.

The moon, Saturn’s sixth-largest satellite, has become a key target in the search for alien life, after scientists discovered it has nearly all of the ingredients needed to support microbes at its sea floor. The new view is a change from the typically static Cassini observations that have been released over the years.

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