Bright equatorial clouds give way to darker southern bands in this
infrared Cassini spacecraft view taken with a filter sensitive to methane
absorption in Saturn's atmosphere.
Delicate shadows cast onto the planet by its inner rings are visible at
upper right. A portion of the same inner rings are seen at lower right.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of polarized
infrared light. The view was acquired on Jan. 14, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 976,000 kilometers (606,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale
is 55 kilometers (34 miles) per pixel.
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.
