The South-Pole of Saturn

Caption NASA originale:"Cassini peeks at Saturn's relatively dark South Pole, providing an up-close look at the haze-free upper atmosphere there. The banded structure around the pole seems to be superimposed on the characteristic high-latitude, mottled, turbulent structure (the white puffs of cloud near the Pole), suggesting that the banding is a shallow, not deep, feature.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 23, 2005, through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of polarized infrared light at a distance of approx. 2,4 MKM (about 1,5 MMs) from Saturn. The image scale is 14 Km (approx. 9 miles) per pixel".