Storms and cloud bands emerge from beneath Saturn's obscuring hazes in
this infrared view.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 20 degrees
below the ringplane. The inner rings partly obscure the planet at top.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on
July 12, 2005 at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers (900,000
miles) from Saturn. The monochrome view uses a combination of images
taken using spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of light centered at 728,
752 and 890 nanometers. Image scale is 170 kilometers (105 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
