Banded nature of Saturn's atmosphere

Notable is the small white spot just north of the dark south polar collar. The image was taken with the Cassini narrow-angle camera on 4 May 2004, at a distance of 29.7 million kilometres from Saturn.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a co-operative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency.

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute