It will take you nearly 4 hours, but if you like, you can kick back, relax and watch this movie consisting of 341,805 images—every shot taken by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) from Feb. 6, 2004 until Sept. 15, 2015.

NOTE: These raw, unedited sequences at times include rapid flashing. If you have photosensitive epilepsy, or a similar condition, this could trigger a physical reaction. Please use caution when watching this footage.

About the source files

The source files came from NASA's Saturn ISS EDR Data Sets (Volumes 1-93) which start when Cassini approached Saturn.

The raw binary images are accompanied by a metadata text file which contains lots of useful data, like when photo was taken, what its "target" was and which color filters were used. (I'm just showing everything in its raw black-and-white form.) By creating a database of the metadata files, I could identify the longest photo sequences, and all photos targeting a particular feature: Saturn, moons, rings or stars. I converted the images from 16-bit to 8-bit and adjusted brightness and contrast. Using database queries, I generated movie sequences, then edited them and set them to music.

The photos shown here from 2015 are in sequence but do not have annotated dates, as they were not archived with their metadata in NASA's Planetary Data System as of Nov. 19, 2015.

You can download some of the tools and documentation used to create this project here: https://github.com/jonkeegan/cassini-tools.