Clouds & Clouds

Caption NASA:"Bright equatorial clouds give way to darker southern bands in this infrared Cassini spacecraft view taken with a filter sensitive to methane absorption in Saturn's Atmosphere.
Delicate shadows cast onto the Planet by its Inner Rings are visible at upper right.
A portion of the same Inner Rings are seen at lower right.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of polarized infrared light.
The view was acquired on Jan. 14, 2007 at a distance of approx. 976.000 Km (about 606.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 55 Km (about 34 miles) per pixel".