Storm panorama

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In early 2011 Cassini took several high-resolution panoramas along the enormous storm that had developed in Saturn's northern hemisphere. This view was captured in an infrared wavelength in which Saturn's atmospheric methane is relatively transparent, yielding tremendous detail of the whorls making up Saturn's weather.

NASA / JPL / SSI / mosaic by Astro0

From unmannedspaceflight.com

Copyright holder: Glen Nagle

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Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about February 26, 2011