A great dark storm stares out from Saturn in this Cassini image, showing
how beautiful and intricate the planet's atmosphere can be. Turbulent
areas represent the boundaries between air masses moving at different
velocities.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Feb. 6, 2005, at a distance of approximately 3.3 million kilometers (2.1
million miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of
infrared light centered at 889 nanometers. The image scale is 39
kilometers (24 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 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.