Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004 for a four-year mission, but was so successful that NASA gave it a two-year extension, to September 2010. Then, in February, NASA extended it a second time for what it calls the Solstice mission, lasting until Saturn's northern hemisphere summer in 2017.
The Cassini spacecraft flew within 310 miles of one of Saturn's moons, Dione, and the photographs are nothing short of spectacular, especially in their texture.
You can find the NASA slideshow - http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/04/19/science/042010-cassini_index.html
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