Swirls of clouds on Saturn

Saturn's bright equatorial region displays prominent swirls and eddies in this image taken on 15 September 2004, by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.

The image was taken with the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of 8.5 million kilometres from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light. The image scale is 101 kilometres per pixel.