This Cassini image shows a bright storm that appeared in mid-September at
the latitude of one of the rare westward jets on Saturn. This latitude
band has come to be called "Storm Alley" by Cassini imaging scientists
because of the large amount of activity seen there during 2004.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
Sept. 18, 2004, at a distance of 8.3 million kilometers (5.2 million
miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to visible blue light. The
image scale is 49 kilometers (30 miles) per pixel. The mottling in the
image is an artifact.
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 Science Mission
Directorate, 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.