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Cassini farewell · 42 images
42 images
13 September 2017. Cassini’s last full portrait of Saturn and the rings, mosaicked from 42 red, green and blue wide-angle frames.
Two days before the plunge, Cassini’s wide-angle camera took a last full portrait. The natural-color mosaic is 42 of 80 frames, red, green, and blue. Image scale on Saturn is about 42 miles per pixel. That scale is a neighbor, not this count.
Documentary plate
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute. 13 September 2017. PIA17218. 42 of 80 wide-angle frames.
What it supports
A dated NASA/JPL/SSI imaging artifact. PIA17218. A spacecraft’s last look, not a property of Saturn.
What it does not
Not the Keeler Gap. The 42 miles per pixel is a second print on the same caption.
ExactnessCount
Form42
Unitimages
Strengthhard
When2017-09-13