Impact Site: Cassini's Final Image | NASA This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. ET on Thursday, took about 11 hours to finish. Before smashing into Saturn last September, Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft sent back some of the most spectacular images of the planet ever seen. [In Photos: Cassini's Last Views of Saturn at Mission's End] Cassini image of Saturn’s geyser-blasting moon Enceladus, captured on Sept. 13, … The space agency released both monochrome and natural-color versions of the image. See all of Cassini's raw images. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the location at which the spacecraft would enter the planet's atmosphere hours later. Cassini snapped its last image from a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 kilometers) away. This site is maintained by the Planetary Science Communications team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion … The download of Cassini's last pictures, which began around 5:45 p.m.