The Eye of Saturn

I was fascinated to come across some images from the NASA Cassini probe the other day. The most stunning ones were of the ‘eye’ of Saturn, the vortex which appears near to the planet’s north pole.

Photo by Valerie Klavans (https://www.flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans/)

Photo By NASA Ames [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Photo By NASA Ames [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Photo By NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab / University of Arizona (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09188) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

More details on the Cassini mission can be found at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html