NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. In this photo, the C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 48 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken with the
Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Aug. 27, 2008, using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 609,000 kilometers (378,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 33 kilometers (20 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 mission for NASA's
Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the
Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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