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South Polar Turbulence

Aug. 30, 2004
Structures in the turbulent cloud bands near Saturn's south pole are visible in this infrared view. This image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Structures in the turbulent cloud bands near Saturn's south pole are visible in this infrared view.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on July 23, 2004, from a distance of 6.7 million kilometers (4.2 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 40 kilometers (25 miles) per pixel. Contrast was enhanced to bring out features in the atmosphere.

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.

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