In a few hours, Cassini’s signal will fade away, letting us know it’s become one with Saturn. This will be at 4:55 AM PDT. But it isn’t leaving us empty-handed: above, the shadow of Saturn silhouetted on Saturn’s rings. Not enough, IT’S OKAY, THERE’S MORE:
Both taken on September 13, 2017, these are one of the final images Cassini will take of the planet. I couldn’t ask for more.
Stay tuned for a huge post on my experience at NASA JPL for the Cassini Grand Finale NASA Social. For live updates, follow my Twitter where I’ll be live tweeting the event, where I’ll be exchanging goodbyes with a spacecraft that’s touched my heart, and many other hearts, like no spacecraft ever has.
The Astropartigirl 
Hi.. how do you process these images and is there a public source of unprocessed space images? Could you be interested in making a tutorial about this stuff or is it just for people with access to NASA/ESA/JPL and the likes?
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Hi Paul! Actually, I used a tutorial online (followed by learning some tricks from fellow image processors) that was written by Emily Lakdawalla! Here’s the one I used, you’ll need Adobe Photoshop for this: https://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-imaging/tutorial_rgb_ps.html
Best of luck, let me know how it goes!
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