NASA Cassini Image: Spots on Saturn | SpaceRef

NASA Cassini Image: Spots on Saturn

STATUS REPORT
Date Released: Friday, April 2, 2004
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

As Cassini closes in on Saturn, its view is growing sharper with time and now reveals new atmospheric features in the planet's southern hemisphere.

Atmospheric features, such as two small, faint dark spots, visible in the planet's southern hemisphere, will become clearer in the coming months. The spots are located at 38 degrees south latitude.

The spacecraft's narrow angle camera took several exposures on March 8, 2004, which have been combined to create this natural color image. The image contrast and colors have been slightly enhanced to aid visibility.

Moons visible in the lower half of this image are: Mimas (398 kilometers, or 247 miles across) at left, just below the rings; Dione (1,118 kilometers, or 695 miles across) at left, below Mimas; and Enceladus (499 kilometers, 310 miles across) at right. The moons had their brightness enhanced to aid visibility.

The spacecraft was then 56.4 million kilometers (35 million miles) from Saturn, or slightly more than one-third of the distance from Earth to the Sun. The image scale is approximately 338 kilometers (210 miles) per pixel. The planet is 23 percent larger in this image than it appeared in the preceding color image, taken four weeks earlier.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org .

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Click on image to enlarge. Full-Res: PIA05385

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Mercury - Venus - The Moon - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Pluto

RADWIN empowers service providers so they can deliver high speed Wireless broadband Access services.

Find hose reels and watering systems

Quality leather chairs in a variety of styles.

News from Commercial Space Watch

- Recovery Act: Water Management in California: Cyber Infrastructure for Irrigation Optimization

- Former Shuttle Astronaut-Astronomer, Sam Durrance, Joins the CSF Suborbital Researchers Group

- Satellite-Based Earth Observation Market Entering Phase of Impressive Growth

- NASA and Lighting Science Sign Agreement to Develop Lighting for Space Exploration

- Sky No Longer the Limit for Digital Magazines

- NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

- Aerojet Engines Support Space Shuttle Atlantis' Re-stocking Mission to International Space Station

- Suborbital Applications Researchers Group Meets in Washington

- NewSpace Is Under Attack

- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Thruster for Unmanned Lunar Lander

- bacus Technology Corporation Awarded NASA Kennedy Space Center Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year - 2009

- NASA ARC Memo; Procurement Sensitivity of the Competition of Aeronautics and Exploration Mission Modeling and Simulation Request for Proposal NNA09274979R

- Lockheed Martin Tests Carbon Nanotube-Based Memory Devices on NASA Shuttle Mission

- Leonid Meteor Shower to Perform Late Tonight

- Sri Lanka signs agreement with SSTL for space capability

- Decorate your home with nautical decor

- Dieses Portal stellt Ihnen die besten online Casino Bonus und Pokerr�ume im Internet vor.

- Play free bingo games and black out bingo.

- 220Marketing specializes in providing mortgage marketing for mortgage companies and managers.

- Take your time to tour our site and check out all the fun games we operate. In addition to the 20 online bingo rooms we operate, we also have online keno.

- TV Stands