Stunning Cassini image of Saturn Nth polar Vortex

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Check out this jaw dropping, absolutely stunning image of the Nth Polar vortex, it was released this morning and they have dubbed it, "The Rose". This is one of the first sunlit images Cassini has taken of the Nth Pole since its arrival at Saturn in 2004.

http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/19...Rose_Of_Saturn

Regards
Trevor

[allan gould]

Astoundingly beautiful and you can look at it forever.

[blink138 (Pat)]

your own imagination could not dream up anything as beautiful as that!
pat

[Draco (Draco)]

As we admire the vortex's of Saturn, I sit here and wonder if there is anyone out there admiring our hurricanes and cyclones from deep space?

[asimov (John)]

Simply amazing stuff!

[Astro_Bot]

Amazing!

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Spectacular stuff!

[Dennis]

Thanks Trevor; the Rose and the NP Movie are mesmerising.

Cheers

Dennis

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Thank for the link Trevor, amazing

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Superb!

[pete123 (Peter)]

Thank you for the heads up - the colour image is now my new desktop wallpaper and like others said, I can't stop looking at it.

[Hzadbhat (Brandon)]

Dumb question time.....
Probably not, but can it be seen through a scope from earth?
And if so, what aperture, magnification etc?
Too many clouds here to check.

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by Hzadbhat

Dumb question time.....
Probably not, but can it be seen through a scope from earth?
And if so, what aperture, magnification etc?
Too many clouds here to check.

That would be a ' big ask ' for any ' ground based ' telescope I would think.

Flash.......

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Hzadbhat

Dumb question time.....
Probably not, but can it be seen through a scope from earth?
And if so, what aperture, magnification etc?
Too many clouds here to check.

No such thing as a dumb question, to resolve anything remotely approaching this level of detail within the Vortex is not on from Earth. That said, if you look in the Solar System Imaging forum at my (Quark) most recent thread from April 26th, which was the best seeing I have had this year, the vortex can be seen within the polar hexagon as a dark circular region in my polar projection maps. Probably more prominent in my 742nm IR data.

Regards
Trevor