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This timeline has an entry for when the final pictures are expected to appear online: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/0911-cassini-eom-tim

• retSava 9y ago
  Thanks for the link, great overview. I think this ominous line rings particularly dark and gruesome, "Cassini reconfigures from an orbiter to an atmospheric probe".
• 2845197541 9y ago
  It can't take pictures in Jupiter's atmosphere?
  • gregwtmtno 9y ago
    The spacecraft is at Saturn. During its final time, it will not have the transmission speed to send pictures, though it will send atmospheric measurements until the very end.
  • JonDav 9y ago
    It could, but the Deep Space Network is the bottleneck 100kbit speeds and hours round trip makes getting the data difficult in best conditions, eg. orbiting out by titan