When are we going to get more images of Saturn and its moons?

Question

Seriously, the Cassini Probe is taking hundreds and hundreds of pictures, every day, and yet there are only a few images being released months apart?
Interplanetary space isn't top secret or classified material. Why the hold up?

Answer 1

An excellent question: the pictures are all on the Cassini website, but only a few are released to the public as press releases. You can see all of the raw photos on their website, listed below. The next encounter with Titan is in 5 days, there is a countdown timer on the website.

Answer 2

As stevers1 said, only a few images are released to the press, but ALL the raw images are available on the Cassini web site. Thousands and thousands of them. The source is the exact page where they can be accessed.

Note that the raw images are not very interesting, they are all black and white pictures through a color filter. To make a color image you need to use software to combine black and white images taken at the same time through blue, red and green filters into one color image. If you have Adobe PhotoShop or similar software, you can do this yourself. But it is a lot of work. And since the scientists are less interested in such images, and the press doesn't really care enough to publish them all, NASA doesn't bother to do that work on all the thousands and thousands of images; they just publish a few really nice looking ones a year.

Answer 3

And, where might you have gotten the notion that space exploration isn't top secret, my dear? You should see the absolutely lovely color video that the Soviets took on Venus, in the 1950's.

Answer 4

NASA forgot to put their address on the envelope when they sent the film to the chemist for developing