A great vortex, ringed by bright clouds, rolls through the southern skies of Saturn in
this Cassini spacecraft view.
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 11, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.8 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.