This beautiful look at Saturn's south polar atmosphere shows the
hurricane-like polar storm swirling there. Sunlight highlights its high
cloud walls, especially around the 10 o'clock position.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 939
nanometers. The image was taken on Jan. 30, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 61 kilometers (38 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.
