This is Cassinis Last Photo of Saturn After 13 Years in Orbit

[n2doc]

On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini space probe plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere and burned up, concluding its mission after 13 years in orbit. Two days earlier, Cassini used its wide-angle cameras and captured this beautiful final photo of the planet it had studied for over a decade.

NASA writes that Cassini spent two hours shooting a total of 80 wide-angle photos of Saturn during this planetary photo shoot. 42 of those 80 photos, shot using red/green/blue spectral filters, were combined and stitched as a mosaic to create the final natural-color photo.

Six of Saturn’s moons — Enceladus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora, and Prometheus — are also faintly visible when looking at this photo up close.

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https://petapixel.com/2017/11/25/cassinis-last-photo-saturn-13-years-orbit/

[OregonBlue]

1. Isn't it just beautiful. Way to go NASA.

[MFM008]

2. Wow

!!!!

[George II]

3. Interesting seeing the shadow of the planet on the rings.

[brush]

5. Yes, but I wonder why there's no light variation on the rings as there is on the planet?

[dhill926]

4. stunning...

[Plucketeer]

6. Just IMAGINE

What science we could pursue if NASA had the same budgetary means as the military does.

[n2doc]

8. We would have landed on Mars already

Probably sampled Titan, Europa and other possible places where life could exist. And more.

But there is more graft to be had making bombs and machines of war

[trusty elf]

7. Magnificent!

What a splendid success the Cassini mission has been.

[jberryhill]

9. The Saturnians are preparing massive retaliation

"Beings from earth attacked us with a strange and ineffective weapon. We shall obliterate them before they advance further."