Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team,SSI,JPL,ESA,NASA
Explanation: Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northernSaturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded thisstunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results in red hues for low clouds and green for high ones, giving theSaturniancloudscape a vivid appearance.Enormous by terrestrial standards, Saturn's north polarhurricane-like storm is deep, red, and about 2,000 kilometers wide. Clouds at its outer edge travel at over 500 kilometers per hour. Other atmospheric vorticesalso swirl inside the large, yellowish green,six-sided jet streamknown as the hexagon. Beyond the cloud tops at the upper right, arcs of the planet'seye-catching rings appear bright blue.
