Incredible gales blow in Saturn's twisted atmosphere. Winds in this region
of Saturn have been measured at greater than 360 kilometers (225 miles)
per hour, faster than the most powerful hurricanes on Earth.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Sept. 17, 2007, using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of
infrared light centered at 750 nanometers. The view was obtained at a
distance of approximately 3.5 million kilometers (2.2 million miles) from
Saturn. Image scale is 21 kilometers (13 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.
