Storms ringed by bright clouds swirl near the south pole of Saturn. This lateral view captures the bull’s-eye pattern that surrounds the pole, where a monstrous, hurricane-like storm resides. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 12, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 354,000 kilometers (220,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 18 kilometers (11 miles) per pixel.

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