The Cassini spacecraft spies smooth, sometimes wavy, contours in the banded east-west
flowing clouds of Saturn. This view shows clouds in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes.
The image was taken using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
centered at 727 nanometers. The view was obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-
angle camera on July 8, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.9 million kilometers
(1.8 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 34 kilometers (21 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.