But a new image NASA shared on Monday (Nov. 22) from the spacecraft shows a very different destination: Saturn, complete with the planet's stunning rings. .
13 using its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC).
The image shows the northern side of Saturn's characteristic rings and more of the planet's northern hemisphere than the southern.— Amazing Saturn photos from NASA's Cassini orbiter.— Amazing moon photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
LROC's cameras were designed to study the moon, of course, so NASA had to manipulate the spacecraft carefully to catch such a stunning image of Saturn.That's because Saturn is dimmer than Jupiter, according to NASA — and both are much dimmer than the moon that LROC is tailored to study!