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The South Pole of Saturn (natural colors; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"Long streamers of cloud encircle the South Polar Region of Saturn. Farther poleward, or toward lower left, faint, deeper atmospheric structures lurk beneath the haze.
This image was acquired from a vantage point 74° South of the Planet's equator.
The view was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 2, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of IR light centered at 728 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 369.000 Km (such as about 229.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 19 Km (about 12 miles) per pixel".
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