Paisley Skies

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute , Posted on: Saturday, 19 July 2008, 08:44 CDT Download full size image

Twirling vortices swim through a vast ocean of hydrogen and helium in Saturn's far north. This view looks toward a region at 70 degrees north latitude.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 23, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 750 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (776,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.

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