This view of high southern latitudes on Saturn shows very linear clouds at
top, usually indicative of stable prevailing winds, and two turbulent,
swirling features farther south. It is possible that these features merged
some time after this image was taken.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
March 6, 2006, using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
centered at 750 nanometers. The image was acquired at a distance of
approximately 2.8 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn. The
image scale is 16 kilometers (10 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.