After a last targeted Titan flyby, the spacecraft dove between Saturn’s uppermost atmosphere and its innermost ring 22 times. As Cassini plunged past Saturn, it collected rich and valuable information far beyond the mission’s original plan, including measuring Saturn’s gravitational and magnetic fields with ultrafine precision, determining the mass of the rings, directly sampling the atmosphere and ionosphere, and capturing incredible up-close views of the planet and the rings.
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