Saturn's whirling vortices and undulating feathery cloud bands are the signs of a restless world. Cassini captured this arresting view of the giant planet scored by bold shadows cast by the rings. The rings are seen edge-on in this dramatic artfully tilted scene. The image was taken with the wide angle camera on March 6, 2005, from a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 750 nanometers. The image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.

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