Bright, circular cloud features waltz through the turbid atmosphere of
Saturn in this Cassini spacecraft view.
Several jets/bands appear in this image (center and upper right). In
contrast to the circular cloud features, these clouds appear thin and
linear.
The image was taken using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of
infrared light centered at 750 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 17 kilometers (10 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.