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- Title South polar storm
- Released 22/07/2004 12:00 am
- Copyright NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- Description
This NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft narrow-angle camera view of Saturn's southern polar region features a bright white spot, or storm, surrounded by faint, darker swirls of clouds.
The image was taken on 22 July 2004, from a distance of 6.7 million kilometres from Saturn, through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light. The image scale is 39 kilometres per pixel. Contrast was slightly enhanced to bring out features in the atmosphere.
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