Swirling clouds over the South Pacific
Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
Cloud structures over the South Pacific, seen with the OSIRIS Imaging System’s narrow-angle camera on 13 November at 06:48 CET. The clouds are part of an anticyclone that is visible close to the centre of the image below.
This false-colour composite was generated from the orange, green and blue optical colour filters. It depicts a portion of the scene below with five times the resolution.
![Zooming out...](/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2009/11/clouds_over_the_south_pacific/9763710-3-eng-GB/Clouds_over_the_South_Pacific_article.png)
Taken three minutes before the image above, this image is shown in a logarithmic scale to bring out details in the varying light intensity. As a result the scene looks roughly the same as it would appear to the unaided human eye.
![In greyscale](/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2009/11/clouds_over_the_south_pacific2/9788387-3-eng-GB/Clouds_over_the_South_Pacific_article.png)
The same area in the South Pacific imaged with the orange filter of the narrow-angle camera and depicted in a logarithmic intensity scale.