Clouds and vortices churn in this beautiful, close-up view of Saturn. This
image is part of a series of important Cassini observations designed to
provide information about winds and convection on Saturn.
The view is centered on a region 44 degrees north of Saturn's equator.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Nov. 7, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 750 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of
approximately 2.9 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is 17 kilometers (11 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.