What's
going on at the north pole of Saturn? As a vortex of the cloud strange and
complex.
Last week, the Cassini
spacecraft orbiting Saturn photographed the center of this whirlwind with
unprecedented detail.
These clouds are
located in the center of the unusual hexagonal cloud system that surrounds
Saturn's North Pole.
A few years ago, the
north pole of Saturn had process to sunlight and only took Cassini infrared
photographs of previously shaded region.
The image, raw and unprocessed,
is preparing to publish in 2013. Recently, several similar images of the region
have been condensed into a movie.
Planetary scientists
will continue to study this strange cloud formation for quite some time.
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