Emily Lakdawalla • Nov 27, 2012
Staring into Saturn's baleful eye
EDIT: There is now an amazing animated version of this image sequence.
This is just wow. It's part of a long sequence Cassini took, staring at Saturn's north pole. When? Today.
![Raw image of Saturn's north polar vortex](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x768_crop_center-center_60_line/20121127_N00198348_filtered.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_60_line/20121127_N00198348_filtered.jpg 576w)
Go check out the rest of the sequence for yourself at the raw images website. Bill Dunford made an animation of some of them.
Zoom out, and you realize you're looking at just a tiny center of Saturn's famous north polar hexagon.
![Saturn's north polar hexagon and rings (raw image)](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x768_crop_center-center_60_line/20121127_W00077190.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_60_line/20121127_W00077190.jpg 576w)
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