The Cassini spacecraft monitors the myriad cloud forms that drift in
Saturn's atmosphere, helping scientists gain a better understanding of how
energy is transported around, and from within, the planet.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 23
degrees above the ringplane. Saturn's shadow hides the rings at top.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb.
25, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of
approximately 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 94 kilometers (58 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.