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PIA01958: Saturn's Northern Mid-latitudes
 Target Name:  Saturn
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle
 Product Size:  500 x 480 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P23912
 Addition Date:  1999-04-25
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01958.tif (484.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01958.jpg (16.14 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

In this Voyager 2 observation of Saturn's northern mid-latitudes is seen a strangely curled cloud attached by a thin ribbon to the bright white cloud region to the north. The cloud has been monitored for seven rotations around the planet. It appears to be forming a closed loop. Other discrete clouds are seen to the east. Also evident is the "ribbonlike" structure at 47 north latitude in the white cloud region. The spacecraft took this image Aug. 16 from a distance of 9.3 million kilometers (5.8 million miles), when the smallest feature seen was about 90 kilometers (56 miles) across. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-04-25