Saturnian Clouds

Long, thin streamers of cloud arc gracefully across this view of Saturn's Southerly Latitudes.
Analysis of images like this should lead scientists to a new understanding of cloud height variations on this complex gas giant world.

The image was taken in polarized green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 7, 2006, at a distance of approx. 2,9 MKM (about 1,8 MMs) from Saturn. The image scale is 17 Km (about 10 miles) per pixel.