Saturn's north pole is littered with storms, as we see in this color view
of the pole. A bit of the north polar hexagon is also visible at the
upper-right.
Cassini scientists are looking forward to sunrise on this pole next year
so that they can better study it in visible light.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this full color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 16, 2008 at a distance of
approximately 673,000 kilometers (418,000 miles) from Saturn and at a
Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 71 degrees. Image scale is 37
kilometers (23 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.