Saturn. Coloured infrared Cassini spacecraft image of part of Saturn's southern hemisphere. Red areas represent low cloud,blue high cloud and brown intermediate level cloud. At upper centre right is a storm system named the Dragon Storm (bright orange). It is a giant thunderstorm whose precipitation generates electricity,as happens on Earth. A section of the planet's rings is seen at right (blue). The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997 to investigate Saturn,its rings and its moons | |
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