Cassini coasts beneath giant Saturn, staring upward at its gleaming
crescent and icy rings.
A great bull's-eye pattern is centered on the south pole, where a vast,
hurricane-like storm spins.
This view looks toward the lit side of the rings from about 26 degrees
below the ring plane. The view was acquired about two hours prior to
PIA08347.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this natural-color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2007, at a distance of
approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 61 kilometers (38 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.
