Several whirling storms churn through this scene from Saturn's atmosphere, obtained by the Cassini spacecraft. It is common on Saturn to see bright rings around dark atmospheric vortices, as in this view. The large vortex at upper right appears to have material flowing either into or out of it. The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on February 5, 2005, from a distance of approximately 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 750 nanometers. The image scale is 20 kilometers (12 miles) per pixel.

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