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High Southern Latitudes (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)
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Caption NASA:"Intricate curlicues and circular patterns of storms swirl through the High Latitudes near Saturn's South Pole in this image from the Cassini Spacecraft.
The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 588.000 Km (such as abpout 365.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 140°. At this High Phase Angle, the Sun is illuminating the limb of the Planet from almost the opposite side of Saturn from the Spacecraft.The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 5, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-InfraRed Light centered at 752 nanometers.
Image scale is roughly 32 Km (about 20 miles) per pixel".
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