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Anandasangaree, President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) giving his testimony to the War Probe Panel appointed by the Sri Lankan government and tasked with investigating the final years of the country’s civil war. The eight-member panel also heard the testimony of SL Gunasekara today, the third day of proceedings. (Pic by Pramod Hinsara)
The Cassini spacecraft probes Saturn's atmosphere, peering beneath the
hazes that obscure the flowing cloud bands at visible wavelengths.
Brighter areas in this view generally represent features higher in the
atmosphere than darker areas. (The dark region at far right is, of course,
on the planet's night side.)
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings and was
acquired from about 38 degrees above the ringplane. It was taken a few
minutes after PIA09828.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan.
2, 2008 using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths
of polarized infrared light centered at 728 and 705 nanometers. The view
was obtained at a distance of approximately 929,000 kilometers (577,000
miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 52 kilometers (32 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org .
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute