The Saturn Atmosphere

Author: Tom* Comments(3)


Clouds over Saturn

This Cassini image is amazing. You can see the small clouds. They do look a bit what we might see right here on Earth; some puffy and some showing long streamers like cirrus clouds. The shadows of the planet’s rings complement the image nicely.

The clouds look small and probably are by Saturnian standards, but the image scale is 12 miles (20 km) per pixel, so they are quite large by ours. The image was taken from 241,000 miles from the planet, almost the distance to our moon. Saturn is a big planet.

Image Credit: NASA / JPL / ESA / ASI

3 Comments so far

  1. SPOTTEDOWL on December 15th, 2005

    Totally awsome! Saturn’s storms form beautiful clouds. It’s
    an awsome planet.

  2. Mary Leonard on December 15th, 2005

    Your right…that image is amazing…are there others you could post? Please?

    Saturn has so many features that are unusual..

    Have they done a lot of study on the composition of the rings reciently…any new data on that?

    Have a nice day…..

  3. Ian Musgrave on December 15th, 2005

    Clouds. Seen to many of them recently, form below. But Saturn’s clouds are rather nice.