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Cassini’s last close flyby of Saturn’s moon Dione

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will zip within 295 miles of Saturn’s moon Dione on Monday, 17 August — the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the probe’s long mission. After close flybys of other moons in late 2015, Cassini will depart Saturn’s equatorial plane to begin a year-long setup of the mission’s grand finale: repeatedly diving through the space between Saturn and its rings.