A line of vortices rolls through the turbulent region on Saturn nicknamed
"Storm Alley" by Cassini scientists. This latitude band, centered around
35 degrees south, has displayed persistent, intensive storm activity since
Cassini began its approach to Saturn in early 2004.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 23, 2008 at a distance of
approximately 1 million kilometers (622,000 miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 56 kilometers (35 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.