PIA06658: Sunlit South
 Target Name:  Saturn
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Instrument:  ISS - Wide Angle
 Product Size:  1017 x 667 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Cassini Imaging Team
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06658.tif (679.2 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06658.jpg (34.47 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This poetic wide-angle camera view of Saturn reveals several small, dark storms in the southern latitudes, where storm activity has been prevalent since before Cassini arrived in orbit.

Also notable here is the semi-transparent C ring, which is visible against the backdrop of the planet.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on April 23, 2005, through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 1028 nanometers and at a distance of approximately 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 142 kilometers (88 miles) per pixel.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image Addition Date:
2005-05-27