Stunning details in Saturn's clouds suggest movement within bands of
atmosphere. This false color enhancement makes visible an exciting level
of detail in the bright and dark bands that is more easily seen at Jupiter
than at Saturn.
See PIA02877 for natural and false color Cassini views of Jupiter.
Saturn's southern hemisphere seems to fade into the blackness of space in
this view.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
centered at 752 (red channel), 890 (blue channel) and 728 (green channel)
nanometers. The view was acquired on Feb. 2, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 1 million kilometers (600,000 miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 57 kilometers (36 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.
