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Incredible Raw Image of Saturn’s Swirling North Pole

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 22:41

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Ok, are you ready for this?

I know… WOW.

This swirling maelstrom of clouds is what was seen over Saturn’s north pole earlier today, November 27, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This is a raw image, acquired in polarized light, from a distance of 238,045 miles (383,097 kilometers)… all I did was remove some of the hot pixels that are commonly found on Cassini images taken with longer exposures.

Again… WOW.

I’ll let this sink in a bit until more information is available.

(Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

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Post tags: atmosphere, Cassini, clouds, north pole, raw image, Saturn, vortex