This Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera view of Saturn's southern
polar region features a bright white spot, or storm, surrounded by faint,
darker swirls of clouds.
The image was taken on July 22, 2004, from a distance of 6.7 million
kilometers (4.2 million miles) from Saturn, through a filter sensitive
to wavelengths of infrared light. The image scale is 39 kilometers (24
miles) per pixel. Contrast was slightly enhanced to bring out features
in the atmosphere.
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.