Cassini last images of Saturn from NASA and Reuters

[turbinetree]

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/images/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/cassinis-close-up-of-saturn-idUSRTX3GF32


Amazing...................from the past to the present years of remarkable service

[Bayard]

1. Major Wowness

Especially the ones in color. One of them looks like there are bodies of water, must be illusion.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. In one of those images, Saturn's dark side is illuminated by "ringshine" ...

i.e., sunlight reflected off the rings. Like moonshine from a moon smeared across the sky, one that never appears to rise or set.

Of course, it's not clear whether that was in IR, UV, or visible light ...

[yallerdawg]

3. It is truly amazing how Stanley Kubrick got the gas giants...

so perfectly depicted in "2001" - in 1968!

Even the final close-ups resemble portions of the "trip" scene from the movie!