The Cassini spacecraft presents a tempestuous scene in which the clouds of
Saturn's bright equatorial region entwine with those in darker, southerly
latitudes.
See PIA07669 for a previously released wide-angle view of Saturn using the
same spectral filter.
The image was taken using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 890 nanometers. The image was acquired with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on Aug. 16, 2006 at a distance of
approximately 289,000 kilometers (180,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale
is 14 kilometers (8 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.
