Flecks of bright cloud and several dark storms dominate Saturn's southern
polar region in this Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera image taken
on August 18, 2004. The bull's-eye pattern near the bottom of the planet
marks the south pole.
The image was taken at a distance of 8.9 million kilometers (5.6 million
miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light. The image scale is 54 kilometers (33 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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.