14 AVR. 2016 Date de publication 2642 Vues

Artist impression of the Cassini spacecraft with Saturn (not to scale), with the Cosmic Dust Analyser highlighted.

The dust grain shown is not a true representative of what the Cosmic Dust Analyser detects; shown here is an interplanetary dust particle, likely originating from a comet or asteroid, collected in Earth’s atmosphere, and used for illustration only.