The region near Saturn's south pole shows a great deal of fascinating
detail in this view from Cassini. Near upper right, an oval-shaped storm
is bordered to the north and south by bright streaks of cloud, and two
dark storms hover in a brighter cloud lane near the center.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
Aug. 7, 2004, at a distance of 8.4 million kilometers (5.2 million miles)
from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light.
The image scale is 50 kilometers (31 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 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.
