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Cassini Observes Saturnian Waves And Shear
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured a remarkably detailed view of Saturn's clouds revealing waves at the northern boundary of the bright equatorial zone, presumably associated both with the strong wind shear there and also the difference in density across the boundary with the band to the north. The intense eastward-flowing jet at the equator makes the edges of the equatorial zone among the most strongly sheared on the planet. To the south, two dark ovals embrace, while dark ring shadows blanket the north. The moon Janus, at 181 kilometers (113 miles) across occupies a mere two pixels beneath the rings, at right of center. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 16, using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 118 kilometers (73 miles) per pixel. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Cassini-Huygens at JPL Cassini Imaging Team Explore The Ring World of Saturn and her moons Jupiter and its Moons The million outer planets of a star called Sol News Flash at Mercury
Cassini Conductes 13th Titan Flyby
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 1, 2006NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Titan for the 13th time Sunday and trained its powerful synthetic aperture radar on a mid-section swath of Saturn's giant moon that mission controllers have named Xanadu. |
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