This natural color view, created using images taken with red, green and blue spectral filters, was provided by the Cassini spacecraft before the mission concluded on September 15, 2017. The view was acquired on September 14 at 19:59 GMT (spacecraft event time) with the spacecraft's wide-angle camera at a distance of 634,000 km from Saturn.
The Cassini–Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency.
Read the press release here:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/Cassini_concludes_pioneering_mission_at_Saturn
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Date: September 14, 2017
Release Date: September 15, 2017
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