Coffee and Cream Clouds

Clouds in Saturn's atmosphere create an intricate pattern reminiscent of whipped cream swirling in coffee.



The view is centered on a region 15 degrees south of the planet's equator. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 18, 2010 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 727 nanometers.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Sat [...]

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