Strong
image enhancement brings out the mutability of Saturn's atmosphere.
The image
manipulation gives a grainy texture to Saturn's clouds. Whorls, streamers and
eddies swirl in the banded atmosphere
of Saturn, a gas giant. The loss of smoothness in the image is balanced by an
increase in detail.
The image
was taken with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to
wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728 (green channel), 752 (red
channel), and 890 (blue channel) nanometers. The semi-transparent red features
across the image are clouds detected by the 752 nanometer filter.
The view
was acquired on Aug. 19, 2005 at a distance of approximately 492,000 kilometers
(306,000 miles) from Saturn.
-- NASA/JPL/Space
Science Institute and SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science
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