Cassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.
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0.000 HBDCassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.
<html> <p><img src="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/pia17218-16.jpg?itok=zshs4mzY" width="985" height="554"/></p> <p> </p> <p><em>After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the planet's atmosphere.</em></p> <p><em><strong>Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</strong></em></p> </html>