Cassini: Stormy North
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:13 pm
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Cassini Solstice Mission | CICLOPS | 2013 Aug 05
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Stormy North
The weather forecast for Saturn's north pole: storms. Lots and lots of storms. Here, the area around north polar hexagon is entirely filled with storms of many sizes.
The north polar hexagon was first observed by Voyager. To see more of the hexagon, see The Persistent Hexagon and Spring Unveils Saturn's Hexagon.
This view is centered on Saturn's north pole. North is up and rotated 33 degrees to the left. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 14, 2013 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers.
The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 476,000 miles (766,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 45 degrees. Image scale is 26 miles (42 kilometers) per pixel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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