"Cassini" got shot "eyes of Saturn"

Atmospheric storms on Jupiter and Saturn - very interesting objects for study. On Jupiter, the most famous is the "Big whirlwind 'education in MDM can put a couple of dozen Earths.

Hexagon on Saturn is the atmospheric storm, which not so long ago was filmed on a video device "Cassini", with colored filters.



Now Cassini, flying at a distance of 2, 2 million kilometers from Saturn, received a detailed picture of the "eyes of Saturn" - the center of the hexagon of the storm. According to experts, the diameter of the "eyes" of 2000 kilometers.

wind speed at this point reaches the huge value of 150 meters per second. By the way, the photo was received April 2 this year, but posted a net just now. The picture obtained by using a spectral filter that passes light with a wavelength of 748 nanometers.

The project "The Cassini-Huygens mission" is a joint development of NASA, ESA, the Italian Space Agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The main task of the spacecraft created by the project - the study of Saturn and Titan, a moon of the giant planet.

Apparatus "Cassini" entered orbit around Saturn 1 July 2004. January 14, 2005 "Cassini" posted on the Titan probe "Huygens", which landed on the surface, and the descent to record sound.

Via nasa

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/232481/