South polar turbulence

Structures in the turbulent cloud bands near Saturn's south pole are visible in this infrared view.

The image was taken with the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft narrow-angle camera on 23 July 2004, from a distance of 6.7 million kilometres from Saturn. The image scale is 40 kilometres per pixel. Contrast was enhanced to bring out features in the atmosphere.