Northern Hemisphere of Saturn
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This image of the northern hemisphere of Saturn was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 5, 1980 at a range of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) shows a variety of features in Saturn's clouds: Small-scale convective cloud features are visible in the dark belt (center); an isolated convective cloud with a dark ring is seen in the lighter zone; and a longitudinal wave is vilible in the brighter zone (right of center belt). The smallest features visible in this photograph are 175 kilometers (108.7 miles) across. Posted on: 21 Mar, 2003
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