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Originally Posted by Shiraz
Fascinating work Trevor - that spot shows up quite well after looking at it for a while and it also appears to be associated with other structure in that zone. has anything similar shown up in past images from Cassini or Hubble? I had a bit of a look around - there are some small spots in this image, but not on the same scale as you show. http://storiesbywilliams.files.wordp...th_auroras.jpg |
Thanks Ray, several times this year I have imaged similar features at this latitude, just on the Southern edge of the dark collar of material immediately surrounding the hexagon. I have attached a very recent Cassini image from June 24th 2014 which shows some spots in that region, it also nicely resolves the anticyclone further to the South which I have been tracking since it formed in the turbulence behind the head of the Great Storm in Jan 2011. This year Phil Miles, Damian Peach and I have managed to image it. It is the longest lived feature of its type ever seen at Saturn. By the way, the Cassini image is in the red part of the spectrum.