CICLOPS: Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerationS
Streamers and Swirls

Streamers and Swirls
PIA 06515
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   This image from Cassini shows details in the alternating light and dark bands in Saturn's southern hemisphere. Noteworthy details in this image are a dark, curved ribbon near upper left, and an elliptical dark spot with attached streamers above and left of center.

The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on September 25, 2004, from a distance of 7.7 million kilometers (4.8 million miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 727 nanometers. The image scale is 46 kilometers (29 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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in 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.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Released: November 8, 2004 (PIA 06515)
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