Saturn's Anomalous South Polar Hot Spot.

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Saturn's Anomalous South Polar Hot Spot. by mgmirkin

Image credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/NASA/JPL-G. Orton

Original Caption:

Image 2: False-color mosaics of Saturn's infrared heat emission taken on February 4, 2004, with the Keck I telescope.

These images show tropospheric temperatures (left: 17.65 microns) and stratospheric temperatures (right: 8.00 microns).

(Saturn's Strange Hot Spot)
http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/news/science/saturn/
http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/news/science/saturn/saturn2004b.jpg

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Title: Saturn's Anomalous South Polar Hot Spot.
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Created: Mon, 06/16/2008 - 1:52pm
Modified: Thu, 06/19/2008 - 8:22pm

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