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South up
Original image932X600 tif 189kB [PIA05437]
This Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera view shows a half-lit Saturn, with two dark storms rolling through its southern hemisphere. The image was taken in visible red light on July 19, 2004, at a distance of 6.2 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) from Saturn.
The image scale is 366 kilometers (227miles) per pixel. Contrast was slightly enhanced to bring out features in the atmosphere.
赤外の南極付近
South up
Original image782X790 tif 332kB [PIA05438]
This Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera view of Saturn's southern polar region shows interesting details in the swirling boundaries between cloud bands. Two faint spots are visible at right, north and south of the boundary of the dark polar collar. The dark spot at the bottom of the image marks the planet's south pole.
The image was taken on July 19, 2004, at a distance of 6.2 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) from Saturn, through a filter which lets infrared light pass through. The image scale is 36 kilometers (22 miles) per pixel. Contrast was slightly enhanced to bring out features in the atmosphere.
[NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
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