Pretty picture: Saturn storm

Written by
Emily Lakdawalla
March 8, 2011
To relieve this week's text-heavy LPSC posts, here's a brief one on an incredible panorama across Saturn's northern storm, taken on February 26 by Cassini and assembled by unmannedspaceflight.com member "Astro0." Click to enlarge to see the mesmerizing detail of whirling storms, as intricate as anything you'd find on Jupiter.

Here's a wide-angle view for context, taken a day earlier, so the details of the storm are not quite the same:

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