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Saturnian "Twirling Vortices" and "Cirrus-like" Clouds Formation (MULTISPECTRUM-2; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"Twirling vortices swim through a vast ocean of Hydrogen and Helium in Saturn's far North. This view looks toward a region at 70° North Latitude.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 23, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 750 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (such as about 776.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 7 Km (about 4 miles) per pixel".
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