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ProbejobArtist's rendition of the descent of the Huygens probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.silversurfer
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ProbeDescent2Artist's rendition of the descent of the Huygens probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.silversurfer
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Probedescent1Artist's rendition of the descent of the Huygens probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.silversurfer
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the ringed planet Saturn shows a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator. The storm is generated by an upwelling of warmer air, similar to a terrestrial thunderhead. The east-west extent of this storm is equal to the diameter of the Earth (about 12,700 kilometers or 7,900 miles). Saturn's prevailing winds are shown as a dark 'wedge' that eats into the western (left) side of the bright central cloud. The planet's strongest eastward winds are at the latitude of the wedge. To the north of this arrowhead-shaped feature, the winds decrease so that the storm center is moving eastward relative to the local flow. The storm's white clouds are ammonia ice crystals that form when an upward flow of warmer gases shoves its way through Saturn's frigid cloud tops to even colder levels.
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Rings and Moons
June 21, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05410
Saturn’s magnificent rings show some of their intricate structure in this image taken on May 11, 2004, by the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow angle camera. Although they appear to be solid structures, the rings are composed of billions of individual particles, each one orbiting the planet on its own path.
Satellites visible in this image: Janus (181 kilometers, or 113 miles across) above the rings, and icy Enceladus (499 kilometers, or 310 miles across) below the rings. The F ring shepherd moons Prometheus and Pandora can be seen along Saturn’s outermost F ring if the image is further contrast enhanced. The image was taken in visible light from a distance of 26.3 million kilometers (16.4 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 158 kilometers (98 miles) per pixel. Contrast in the image was enhanced to aid visibility.
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 Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. 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
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Animation showing the different phases of the moon.THoTH
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