Details in Saturn's southern polar region highlight the often turbulent
nature of the boundaries that separate the cloud bands on this swirling
gaseous globe.
This image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
July 13, 2004, from a distance of 5.1 million kilometers (3.2 million
miles). The image was taken through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of
infrared light centered at 889 nanometers. The image scale is 30
kilometers (19 miles) per pixel. Contrast has been enhanced slightly to
aid visibility.
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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.