This image from Cassini shows details in the alternating light and dark
bands in Saturn's southern hemisphere. Visible details in this image are
a dark, curved ribbon near upper left, and an elliptical dark spot with
attached streamers above and left of center.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
Sept. 25, 2004, at a distance of 7.7 million kilometers (4.8 million
miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 727 nanometers. The image scale is 46 kilometers (29
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 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.
