Saturn's southern polar region is haunted by a number of dark storms in
this image, including one storm at right of center with a slight
brightening around its boundary.
The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on Aug. 10, 2004, at a
distance of 8.6 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) from Saturn
through a filter sensitive to infrared light. The image scale is 51
kilometers (32 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 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.